Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day, he drove out to Long Island for the only exercise he says he wants from now on-a game of golf...
Dewey told newsmen little they wanted to know. He used the moment for its psychological effect on the enemy. He exuded victory. Delegations had been calling on him all day. He rolled off a list: Oklahoma, Maine, Alabama, Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Oregon, Wyoming, Rhode Island. It was probably the high point of the war of nerves. "I have no understandings, arrangements, bargains or deals with anyone in the United States for anything," he said...
...visualize the danger of fighting with most of the people against them. By the time they woke up to the seriousness of the war, says Author Miller, the French were involved and "the struggle became a war of survival against some of the most formidable odds faced by the island kingdom since the days of the Spanish Armada...
...reply: "Well, no, not for R.C.s." When her aunt explained that R.C.s meant Roman Catholics and not Red Cross, Veronica didn't get it; she had always "thought it best to be a Catholic." As she grew up, she discovered that a great house on Long Island and another on Fifth Avenue couldn't protect her from social wounds inflicted by snobbish non-Catholics. She picked up other facts of life: "shanty" Irish didn't rate with her own "lace-curtain" set; German Jews thought that marriage to a Russian Jew was a comedown...
...Independence came to 15 million former British subjects here in January. 69. This "bridge" between East and West fell, under Communist' pressure, in March. 70. On this island, a New York-born Premier lost his job after 16 years. 71. Here, after a 50-year reign, a sovereign gives up the throne...