Word: hangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a soldier stays publicly mum because he believes laymen too stupid to comprehend the complex art of war. Many a layman believes that soldiers hang on to strategic traditions as a fan dancer does her fan, talk little because they think little and have little...
...heavy over the convention is certain to hang the thought that it opens as democratic government in Europe has suffered its greatest defeat, as U. S. democracy faces its greatest challenge...
...broadcasting stations of Free China began jubilant descriptions of how the Japanese spring drive was being routed, claimed 50,000 Japanese had been killed. Special Ambassador General Nobuyuki Abe, who long since arrived to recognize the Wang regime in the name of the Son of Heaven, continued to hang around doing nothing. More significantly, in Tokyo no audience with the Emperor was scheduled for a delegation of Chinese who arrived representing Mr. Wang...
...Government. Few Prime Ministers would have tried to hang on with a majority of 81 in a House which is normally Conservative by 210. But for two long days stubborn Neville Chamberlain clung to his office while Adolf Hitler struck savagely at the Low Countries (see p. 22). Desperately Mr. Chamberlain appealed to Laborites Attlee and Arthur Greenwood and to Liberal Leader Sir Archibald Sinclair to join a National Government. But both Labor and Liberals were firm. Labor, with its 164 votes, though it could not command a majority, could write its own ticket with all Britain demanding national unity...
Painted by Bernard Keyes of Boston, the portrait will hang in the Lowell House Common Room...