Word: following
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taft's position was a little hard to follow: he wanted the U.S. to announce that it would fight if Russia made an aggressive move in Europe, but was unwilling to sign a treaty which said the same thing in a more carefully hedged...
...pipe in one hand and a notebook in the other has been wandering along the East Coast and through parts of the Midwest talking to people. He has popped up in all sorts of places, and chatted over everything from tea to corn whisky and orange bitters. "I always follow the custom of the country," says Raven Ioor (pronounced yore) McDavid...
...daughter, Cherie Coppeliano, went to visit him in the death house. At lunch time, Sheridan told them: "Now, you folks go on uptown and have a nice lunch. When you get back, we'll have a nice talk." Sheridan stared after them as long as his eyes could follow. Then he called a guard...
...outcome of World War II. In March 1940 he told a visitor: "I am as anti-Hitler as you are. But keep in mind that Germany will win the war." The King seemed right when the German army engulfed Belgium after 18 hopeless days of resistance. He refused to follow his government to exile in England. He surrendered his army. In both these actions he showed his stubborn will to rule rather than reign...
...clubhouse for the Indoor Sports, an organization of shut-ins. He became San Diego's best-known newspaperman, and one of its best-loved citizens. Four years ago, when the rival Journal hired him away from the Union, hundreds of readers came with him to follow his new column, "People We Know...