Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leader's Man. These men spoke not only for their nations but for themselves. They had met Franklin Roosevelt face to face, had broken bread with him, heard his infectious laugh, studied with him the problems of war & peace. He had been their surest common link, the tolerant architect of their coalition. And something of what they felt was felt in like degree by leaders of the United Nations everywhere...
...ruddy-faced, white-thatched, driving apostle of the vigorous life sent the new U.S. Tenth Army driving deeper into Okinawa last week. Commands flowed from him in his normal conversational tones-roars, shouts and bellows. His celebrated laugh rolled out. Said one who had heard it: "It starts with a little chuckle in his throat and then he really lets go and shakes the walls...
...staff, hearing that laugh, knew that Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., after 37 years of soldiering, was content with his first taste of major battle. Until now, fate had teased him. He had learned to fly in World War I, then had been denied overseas service. At the start of World War II, commanding in Alaska, he was sitting in a strategic hot spot, seemingly destined for speedy, decisive action; but the war, lightly singeing his area, had swirled southward, leaving him in the quiet northern shadows...
...stumbled through a weak excuse in Man. Cost but when the other 69 men in the Company, a dog and three stray field mice came up to my room that night to seek advice that was too much. However, I'm not narrow minded; the other boys got a laugh out of my anties, so why shouldn't I go through with the show...
...went on a long-awaited rampage last week. Fourteen years ago Dictator Jorge Ubico had savagely suppressed their traditional Eastertide "Huelga Estudiantil" (Students' Strike); now at last, in the liberal light of President Juan José Arévalo's regime, it roared its way through the laugh-hungry city. Now there was at least twice the oldtime noise, fun, bawdiness...