Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lunch over, Harry Truman showed another side of his character. Spotting newsmen waiting outside Les Biffle's office, he shook hands all around and asked: "Did you ever have a bull or a load of hay fall on you? If you have, you know how I felt last night. I felt as if two planets and the whole constellation had fallen on me. I don't know if you boys pray, but if you do, please pray God to help me carry this load...
...caution. Reports that the Germans were evacuating their rocket bases in The Netherlands, if true, might mean that the enemy would send over a final shower. Besides, V-1 could still be launched at England from planes operating at night from Germany itself. The despairing Nazis might even load up their obsolete bombers with explosives and guide them by radio to crash in England...
...finally got out another issue of the Tribune, the first since Nov. 10, 1944. Having solved his manpower troubles by being his own adman, reporter, make-up man, typesetter and printer's devil, Editor Stephenson explained why it had been so long between issues: "The physical and mental load became just too much...
They were the second largest women's service branch. The Coast Guard's SPARs numbered 9,745; the women marines 19,000. There were 82,000 WAVES in uniform. Considering the difference in size between the Army & Navy, women were carrying a proportionately far greater load in the Navy. The WACs, still struggling to fill their quota, numbered only...
...achievement of any woman of responsibility for the large purposes of the nation, the world, will speed the day which I used to think had already dawned, when women and men can be judged first as persons. . . . America calls on you to do your part in carrying your common load...