Word: footstool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kept it over the years. A picture of Harry Truman, autographed "To Louis St. Laurent," had been taken off the walnut, table-type desk and was half-hidden on a shelf. Mackenzie King sat again in his stuffed blue swivel chair and rested his feet on the worn, carpeted footstool inherited from his predecessor and friend, Sir Wilfrid Laurier...
...higher than an "angel's footstool," is frigid, closemouthed COMINCH Ernest J. King, who was eligible for retirement last year but was retained in his post by the President. Last week he celebrated his 65th birthday. The only other men in the Navy who wear an admiral's four stars on active line duty: > White-haired, canny Chester W. Nimitz, 58, boss in the Pacific; shaggy, bull-tongued William Frederick Halsey Jr., 61, commander of the South Pacific and the only one of the full admirals besides King himself who is a naval aviator; ruddy, meticulous Harold...
...suite again. This time he sat on a footstool at the feet of a circle of a score of women members of the Republican women's platform committee while several took notes. He answered their questions with the same gestures of head & hands, and the same straight language he had used on male audiences...
...left. This conjured up a very distinct evening when he was 14 years old and his older sister came back from a trip to Italy and described Rome to the family. They were in the living room of their Bristol home. He was sitting on a footstool looking into his sister's face. She was sitting on a sofa with a ready-made album of various cities. She had liked Florence best because that was where her father came from, but one thing in Rome had excited her and her description of it inflamed the boy. That...
...Roosevelt consolidated with Churchill in the simultaneous declaration of war upon Japan . . . so the American people have gone to war to save Stalin and the international banker which are one & the same. . . . [Roosevelt] supported the hand of Communist China, the wealth of the American nation he offered as a footstool to Stalin, the mightiest murderer of modern history...