Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign to get G.I.s to wear their helmets straight, Lee began stopping men in the street and asking: "Is my helmet on straight?" Told respectfully that it was, the General would crack back: "Well, yours isn't." This had the desired effect until Lee ran into one officer who answered: "No sir, your helmet isn't quite straight. Move it a little over this way-no, that way-no, that's wrong too." Word of the tactic got around; the General had to abandon his campaign...
...Americans. One thing they cannot take away from us. We will start our new life under the old principle that we have been taught: to live means to fight. . . . I wish the new secret weapon would appear. The flames are licking up to the Rhine. My Cologne, Peter! Isn't there any justice any more to make these culprits...
...first rehearsal with the NBC orchestra (while permanent Maestro Toscanini quietly watched maneuvers from a studio corner), he told the musicians: "Meeting an orchestra for the first time is like a rider meeting a new mount-he isn't quite sure he'll go over the fence ahead of the horse or the horse ahead of him. I hope we'll take all the fences together." The audience at his first broadcast saw little chance that his musicianship would challenge that of wise old Arturo Toscanini, who hand-picked Dr. Sargent and who rarely encourages a serious...
After a week of discussion on the billets just given the seniors, we admit that this event was a letdown in some respects. Harry Meyerhoff says he believes he caught sight of a ship out there but isn't certain
...What Isn't Changed? In speaking of Yugoslavia, Mr. Grew insisted that Ambassador Patterson had not "participated" in the negotiations. All London knew that Mr. Patterson had participated. Mr. Grew himself said that the Ambassador had conferred often with King Peter...