Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing Soft. The President had a lot of news to tell, and he told it swiftly. He had hoped Marshall could stay on, but Marshall, recovering from a kidney operation, was in no shape to continue. Under Secretary Robert Abercrombie Lovett, who had ably carried a heavy load, would leave when Marshall did, on Jan. 20, Inauguration...
...humor, Glazebrook writes on foreign policy with full attention to underlying economic and geographic factors. As JIB's boss, he will have the job of telling the other intelligence arms what they need to know about other countries-their steel production, flying weather, rivers & harbors, and the load limits of their bridges...
Finally at 10 o'clock the flight was called; the students called goodbye to waiting parents and girl friends, trooped aboard. The heavily loaded plane (normal load: 21 passengers) waited, engines turning, for half an hour. The fog lifted a little. Against the urgent advice of the control tower, the plane snarled down the runway, lifted off the concrete...
...That's about the ticket,' said the inspector. 'We treat our own people the same way, so you, as a foreigner, can't kick. Al, help him to load up the plane and hook on a train of gliders...
...Load. The day after Franklin Roosevelt died, Harry Truman, the man who never wanted to be President, confided to reporters: "Did you ever have a bull or a load of hay fall on you? If you have, you know how I felt last night." In 1948, the load was bigger. But Harry Truman was not the abjectly humble man of 1945 who had begged every casual visitor to pray for him. He had the air of a man who felt he had learned his job. In an informal talk, he conceded recently that there were a million...