Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stuffy goodbye to the troops," said retiring Chief of Staff Ike Eisenhower. Accordingly, the ceremony in the Pentagon was brief. President Truman drove over from the White House. In Army Secretary Royall's unpretentious office Ike stepped forward, administered the oath of office to his friend & successor, homely, homespun General Omar Bradley. Then the President pinned a Distinguished Service Medal (his third) on Ike's chest. "I'm highly honored," said Ike. "It gives me more pleasure than you," replied Truman...
...squashes imaginary lice while he talks with lice-ridden Bedouins.* Contrary to pukka British practice, he lets Arab enlisted men eat from the same dishes as their officers. In 27 years among the Arabs (ten of them in Iraq), he has become known as the Arabs' great friend...
...surex that Grimes has committed another murder, head offstage on a new hunt, chanting now near, now far: "Peter Gri-imes ... Peter Gri-mes." As Peter appears on stage, clearly out of his mind, the orchestra is silent; the only sound to be heard is an eerie foghorn. His friend Balstrode warns him to "sail out . . . then sink the boat," before the mob finds him, and Peter Grimes obeys...
...personal belongings was on exhibition, including her Bible and her drinking cup (for orange juice). The 5,300-seat auditorium and the many other rooms were in almost constant use for rallies, seminars, motion pictures, exhibits. The elevator operator, a leafy orchid in her hair, loudly hummed What a Friend We Have in Jesus. And everywhere ministers and delegates with convention buttons as big as flying saucers were meeting and greeting...
Discussions. The second book, The Anarchist, is better. Laid in 1903, it is the story of Esch, a short, red-faced, powerful bookkeeper who in a phlegmatic, almost indifferent way: 1) gets mixed up with the Social Democrats when his friend is jailed in a shipping strike; 2) becomes a partner in a theatrical venture featuring lady wrestlers, his task being to recruit the wrestlers; 3) seduces, or almost takes by assault, a middle-aged widow who owns a restaurant, and subsequently marries her. The book is a succession of drab quarrels over boardinghouse tables, dull arguments over money, cynical...