Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brandon Reilly, relieving Berg, pitched masterful ball, allowing only one hit in the four frames he was on the mound. Rolfe used two hurlers in the extra innings, and came to grief in the twelfth...
...more trouble. They vainly searched for grandmother's serrated bread knife, routed sleepy husbands out of bed, held dawn conferences over bakery handouts which read like a golf lesson: "Keep your head down. Keep your eye on the loaf. And don't bear down." Then came grief, cussing, lopsided slices which even the toaster refused, often a mad dash to the corner bakery for rolls. But most housewives sawed, grimly on-this war was getting pretty awful...
When his oldest son, Arthur, was killed in flying combat over England, Tedder took his sketchbook, wandered away for a few days, returned and wordlessly dug himself into his work. The only sign of his deep grief, in days to come, was a sharpening of his cutting humor. He has two other children, a daughter in the W.A.A.F. in England, a younger son still in school...
...grief that Mr. Morgenthau faced on his return was the necessity of finding means to break this inflationary trend. One way: higher taxes, to strike directly at consumption and to get at incomes of $3,000 and less, which today constitute some 45% of all income, and of necessity are the high spenders, the low savers. Another: forced savings, either by further refundable taxes or by forced sale of bonds. Either will be politically difficult, especially after the Treasury record during this year's framing of the tax bill. Offered a sales tax by Congress, Morgenthau turned it down...
...power, says Freeman, was "his incredible nervous control." A broad-shouldered man with cold grey-blue eyes and a thick beard, Longstreet once told another officer: "I never felt fatigue in my life." He kept discipline among his troops and clear understandings with his subordinates. A private grief, the death of three of his children, left him a somber man and a complete soldier...