Word: loneliest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief job was to provide entertainment for some of the loneliest men on earth. With a 16-mm. projector and a few reels of antediluvian film, Jimmy borrowed a jeep (which now is practically his personal property), started on a series of one-night stands at the various bases. The setup was as simple as Eden. Jimmy would drive up, find a space whacked out of the jungle, set up his screen and put on his show. One of the early screenings was interrupted three times by Japanese bombers. Wrote Jimmy: "We would all dive for the slit trenches until...
...last Saburo Kurusu called on Secretary Hull again, this time at night at his hotel, and stayed for three hours. There was still no statement. Around the brownstone Japanese Embassy, biggest and loneliest in Washington, the atmosphere was like a hospital street where the signs read Quiet, Please...
...Soviet Ambassador Constantine Oumansky among the diplomatic outcasts of Washington. Oumansky, though diplomatically shunned for two years, was nevertheless personally popular, bore up well. Henry-Haye, natu rally affable, is desolately lonely-next to Germany's handsome Chargé d'Affaires, Dr. Hans Thomsen, is probably the loneliest man in boom-packed Washington...
...ivory-billed woodpecker, rarest of U. S. birds, was considered extinct about 1926. But in the latest issue of Audubon Magazine Ornithologist James Taylor Tanner of Cornell estimated that some four & twenty of these birds still live in the loneliest swamps of Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina. Biggest U. S. woodpecker, the ivory-bill once ranged the southern primeval forest, eating larvae from recently dead trees. As the forest dwindled, so did the ivorybill, and Tanner gives it only a slim chance of surviving...
...intimates could no longer keep from him a rumor that Mrs. Coolidge would divorce him as soon as he left the White House.) At some moments the job seems lonelier than usual. The man sitting serenely in the touring car had become, out of his own choosing, the loneliest of all U. S. Presidents...