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...George Marshall drove through Athens, the people (who had not been told of his visit until just before his arrival) thronged the streets and cried: "Zeto [hurrah] Marshall!" He drove to the headquarters of the U.S. military mission -nicknamed the "Temple of Knowledge" by sour Greek officers-for talks with the U.S. staff. To correspondents, U.S. officers explained that no decisive action was possible this year because winter had already come to the mountains in northern Greece. All that could be done was to contain the guerrillas, and prepare a spring offensive. Remarked Ambassador Grady: "The situation ... is not completely...
Easing in to the dock at Yorktown, Va., Harry Truman had one small reminder of the political storms to come. The Williamsburg was overtaken by a small runabout carrying a dozen teen-age boys and girls alternately shouting "Hurrah for Thurmond!" and singing Dixie...
Chep's first political adventure was at a rally presided over by his father. Chep, then eight years old, was "poppa's" great admirer. He sat in the front row screaming, "Hurrah for poppa," so steadily that the rally had to cease until someone led Chep away to a barrel of lemonade. Chep has kept that quality of persistence...
...Tail Is Better." At 14, at prep school: "Hurrah, Hurrah, Hurrah. Groton 46-St. Marks 0. I am hoarse, deaf, and ready to stand on my cocoanut. Our team played a wonderful game." Sara Delano Roosevelt sent him stamped, self-addressed envelopes to make sure that he would write often...
...people moved on hour after hour over the whole length and width of Red Square, without a break or a gap. Most of them were smiling. A voice from the loudspeaker regularly bade the crowd to "Hurrah for Stalin." But all quite naturally turned their faces up toward him. No other procession I ever saw had the force, impact or sheer splendor of that ragged million. It was Russia that had passed, in the shape of her patient, pliant, tireless people...