Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forked road. If it followed a path back to old G.O.P. isolationism and reaction; if, in Congress, its members combined with conservative Democrats to form a haggling opposition, the path would lead to disaster. But its leaders called for cooperation. House Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr., glad at last to retire from the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, asked for a joint Democratic-Republican House and Senate Committee on the conduct of the war. A similar proposal came from Michigan's Senator Vandenberg...
...Italians were bitter at their German so-called allies and they were glad they would not have to fight for them any more. They had done well, and even British officers praised their qualities, which is more than could be said after the sad Italian showing during Wavell's campaign...
...Marshal radioed to shrewd little Admiral Jean François Darlan, commander of Vichy's armed forces, in Algiers: "I am glad you are on the spot.* You can act. Keep me informed." It was Admiral Darlan, according to reports, who surrendered Algiers. He was a U.S. prisoner and rumor held that he might be persuaded to another ratlike twist of his career: a shift to the anti-Vichy side. As for Vichy's unsavory Chief of Government Pierre Laval, this wiliest of the men of Vichy was said to have hastened to Rome for a worried meeting...
...Giraud had arrived in Algeria "to organize a French North African Army and again take up arms side by side with forces of the United Nations for the defeat of Germany and Italy." At the time of Giraud's escape, General de Gaulle declared that he would be glad at any time to serve under his senior...
...hate to think of it and I don't believe it. My hair is blonde but I give it a bit of fixing-I do. I have teeth that were made by some mechanic and I wear glasses, and my legs-ee lad, I'm glad I earn my money with my throat...