Word: glads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME is glad to pass on to all its technician-readers Dean Whitmore's urgent call...
...kite up and down. When we unloaded everything, my crew started tossing out whiskey bottles with sticks in their necks, screamers which sound hellishly like big bombs and make searchlight crews scramble for cover. On the way home we could still see the fires 150 miles away. I was glad that night I was one of the people above and not one below...
Clanking over the rolling plain at 25 to 30 miles an hour, the tank has the motion of a small sailboat in choppy water. Every sudden encounter with a ditch or an arroyo knocks the crew against the steel walls, making them momentarily glad of their thick, hot helmets, which otherwise are instruments of torture in a desert that is on the average 10° hotter than Egypt...
Wendell Willkie conferred with Egypt's Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha, looked over U.S. troop installations, spoke to U.S. soldiers with amiable profanity: "I just want to say I'm damned glad to see you. God bless you and give 'em hell." He regretted he could not give U.S. correspondents the latest baseball news (see p. 50). When he rebuked the strict Mideast censorship a reporter cried, "Thanks...
...Cairo, who reported he was "in a sweat" because he didn't know how the Dodgers had done for the last three games, and thus couldn't answer the main question of the U.S. troops in Egypt-knew that Buck Newsom was a natural Dodger. They were glad his fantastic Odyssey was over-Brooklyn to Jersey City to Macon to Little Rock to Chicago to Albany to Los Angeles to St. Louis to Washington to Boston to St. Louis to Detroit to Washington to Brooklyn again. They all knew him as a Man Of Purpose, though the purpose...