Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Year I nominate Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who has sacrificed his well-earned rest, his popularity and his health to serve his country and the world...
...peace," Abrell said slowly, "and we've got our health. We've had luck with the heifers and a couple of young ones brought $325 apiece last week at a sale. We're prepared for winter-we've opened the silo and it's filled with the whole stalk of corn, ear and all. There's plenty of hay in the barn...
...Archbishop, dabbing water from the font on the baby's brow. Young Prince Charles gurgled demurely, and ten well-scrubbed choirboys in Tudor uniforms of scarlet and gold sang out O Worship the King. Afterwards there was tea and christening cake, and everyone drank the baby's health in champagne...
Everybody knew that George Marshall, who would be 68 on New Year's Eve, yearned for retirement. But President Truman, who knows a number of persons who are ticking along fine with one kidney,* was optimistic about the Secretary's health and in no hurry to name his successor. If Marshall left, however, there was no doubt of his own choice. It was Under Secretary Robert A. Lovett, of whom he had once said: "Lovett is a better Secretary than the man they have...
...Only a favored few* know what he looks like or how he is progressing . . . Why this secrecy? The whole world is waiting to know about the baby . . . The palace authorities are ill advised." The Paris press went further; it wondered if there was anything wrong with the health of the baby to warrant such secrecy...