Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somewhere near Cincinnati, they held a business meeting. Morris Riley, in charge of arrangements, explained that they didn't need to worry about formal clothes. Morris said: "Captain Truman told us that we could go anywhere so long as we wore shoes." They practiced a parody of Tipperary to sing to Captain Truman: "Up from Jackson County came a county judge one day. He worked into the White House of this grand old U.S.A...
...Monsignor Tiernan's Mass at St. Matthew's Church, said in memory of 70-odd comrades who had died in France or since. Said one veteran: "In the old days we used to land somewhere, get in a fight first and then we'd go to Mass. We're getting...
Crockett leaped to his feet. "I do not say I will not do it again." Said Medina: "Well then, if you feel like doing it, you go ahead . . . with moderation...
...cannot listen to music too often. It affects my nerves and makes me want to say sweet nothings and stroke the heads of men who live in a dirty hell and can still create such beauty. But these days you can't go around stroking people's heads lest your hand be bitten off. You have to smash them over the head-smash them without mercy-even though in theory we are against every form of oppression of mankind . . . ours is a hellish task...
Clad in a simple khaki uniform without insignia, China's Commander in Chief and President rose to his feet from a sofa in the corner of the room. Slowly, without show of emotion, he made the announcement that all had expected: he would leave Nanking and go to his native home. Then in his choppy Ningpo accent he read from a formal statement...