Word: lieut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Your Press department [TIME, Jan. 21 ] recalled the appropriate line from Tristram Shandy ("They should have wiped it up," said my Uncle Toby, "and said no more about it"), and proceeded to wipe up the press and say more about it [the reporting of Lieut. General Sir Frederick Morgan's remarks on Jewish refugees...
Sawdust Trail. In Medford, Ore., Army Lieut. Hugh Collins' parrot Snafu, sent to jail for habitual bad language, turned over a new leaf, croaked snatches of old-time Gospel hymns...
...fire fell away to embers. The President handed the papers back to Lieut. Schulz. The lieutenant departed. Four years later, given this incomplete glimpse of an historic scene, the nation could only wish that he might have stayed a little longer...
Last week, after many turnings, Averell Harriman's chosen path led him into a State Department reception room in Washington. Greying at 54, but still lean and handsome, he had just flown to the U.S. from Moscow. The President had appointed his successor-shrewd, driving Lieut. General Walter Bedell Smith, who had been General Eisenhower's wartime chief of staff. Now Harriman was to hold a last press conference. But before he could start talking, the door opened. State Secretary James Byrnes walked in. He was smiling and in his hand he carried a small leather case...
...below zero when the men-41 specially trained Canadians, one British and five American observers-clambered up the shining aluminum sides of their 4½-ton vehicles and dropped through topside hatches into 6 ft.-by-5 ft. cabins. Young (33), British-born Lieut. Colonel Patrick Douglas Baird, 6 ft. 7 in. from the peak of his blue parka to the soles of his mukluk boots, stood waist-high and erect in the hatch of the No. 1 "snow" as it moved ponderously out of line, swung left, headed down the street. The other vehicles, each tugging two supply-laden...