Word: frigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gobierno, Orden, Unidad), the Army clique which has bossed the Government of President Ramirez, were called to a meeting in the Municipal Building. Foreign Minister Alberto Gilbert, hitherto no friend of the U.S., but no fool either, made a brief and urgent speech. The officers listened in frigid silence. Then Gilbert left for the Foreign Office, where he moaned: "I am in the battle of my life...
...grey-greens have been a nuisance to him. They are hard to adjust, complicated to lace (especially the left one), have a trick of starting to go adrift at crucial moments. Beyond that, a bumpily laced, hurriedly donned legging will inevitably bring a bark from the noncom, a frigid stare from the nearest officer...
...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...
...rode through the bedlam of the Place de la Concorde, staring with frigid disapproval at the hysterical, joy-drunk mobs, who threatened to engulf him. His heart and his tongue alike were prophetically bitter: the war, though mercifully over, had not been won. Into sullen, unmolested Germany marched a U.S. Army of Occupation. Pershing saw a future that wishful, gentler men could...
...slightest from righteousness. It is a fundamental Biblical concept that God is all justice and all love. In this case love would seek atonement and forgiveness for our enemies, both within and without the land. If peace cannot lead to atonement and forgiveness, the world will be frigid with hate and a trustworthy relationship between nations will be an impossibility. If we cannot forgive those of our own countrymen . . . even though they repent and are paying their penalties, then we will enter the future with an open sore in the national life...