Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George, don't feel that we don't want you. Why, lord love you, child, we're glad to have you. You've only been here a few months, and you're making progress already...
...Allied planes still came over: Then the Badoglio Government declared "formally and publicly . . . that Rome is an open city" (see p. 26). The Vatican radio gave glad approval, did not deny that the Church was serving as intermediary to obtain Allied recognition of Rome's demilitarization. In rebellious Milan the crowds shouted: "Rome does not want any more raids! Neither...
...glad Georgia is first in something at last. I'm tired of us always being at the tail end," chortled plump, bouncy Governor Ellis G. Arnall.* A good many U.S. citizens, including Eleanor Roosevelt, had been arguing that if 18 is a soldiering age, it is also a voting age. Bills calling for the change were before 31 state legislatures, introduced in both the national House and Senate this year..But Georgia's Arnall, only 36 himself, made vote-at-18 something of a personal crusade...
Building the Road. Until the war came, Seagrave's worst worry was malaria. Nearly as worrisome were the narrow, precipice-hugging, sandy or muddy roads, which hampered his movements when he wanted to visit an outpost clinic. He was glad to see the building of the Burma Road, but that was heartbreaking too. "Even on that short stretch of road there must have been 10,000 coolies at work. The hillsides were black with them: Chinese, Shans, Kachins. Huge goiters hampered their work. Dozens were lying by the road shaking with fever. In the rockiest parts coolies were tediously...
...student officers, who will now live, work, and do push-ups with their former students, are Ensign Jay M. Greene and Ensign Homer D. Jones. Both seemed glad to be relieved of teaching duties...