Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sullen, glint-eyed men collected in murmuring knots in the dusty, farm-town streets. Soon, the small angry knots had. become one 125-man mob pulling up at the Tavares courthouse in a 20-car caravan. Most of the mob stayed behind while its leaders walked up the steps to talk with big, easygoing Sheriff Willis McCall. "Willis," said one,"we want them niggers...
...Girl Not Like Drink." Western Europeans last week relaxed on the beaches, went fishing or drank beer in the warm evenings. But amid this summer somnolence, people anxiously waited to see how the great debate in Washington would go. The man who perhaps waited most anxiously of all was a beak-nosed French general, eight times wounded and 41 times decorated, whom few Americans knew...
General Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny is commander in chief -theoretically-of West Europe's land forces, and the man to whom the most crucial task would fall if the Russians attacked tomorrow. He is also the most striking member of a strange military organism known as Uniforce, which for nine months has quietly tried to plan the defense of Western Europe. The progress & problems of Uniforce throw a light on the issue before the U.S. Congress...
...mopping his brow to express cold or heat." He was moody. An American who worked with him says: "Frequently a U.S. officer visiting De Lattre would find him hunched over his desk, holding his head in his hands. The natural reaction of the American would be: 'The man's crazy...
Last week, as the going got rough in Washington, De Lattre was calm. Said his wife: "He has got very patient since he has gone to Fontainebleau-as patient as when he was in prison." Patiently, the man on a tightrope was waiting for America to commit an act of faith...