Word: mission
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brisk morning last March, two ladies of serious demeanor paid a call at Brooklyn College. It was important that their mission be kept a secret. So, stating only that they were members of the Public Education Association, they bustled into a large building, hurried down a corridor, and quietly slipped into back-row seats in a history classroom...
When wind of Fu's mission reached Canton, the Nationalist high command sent two missions flying northward with silver dollars. They arrived too late, turned back in dejection. Like General Fu, Governor Tung joined the Red army and, as an earnest of his loyalty, turned Suiyuan over to Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung...
From the retirement of his California ranch, the former commander of the world's greatest air force has told his story in Global Mission. Readers had better not look for the overall grasp of high-level problems that marked Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins or for the tersely marshaled facts and concise, West Point English of General Dwight Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe. But Hap Arnold's military life spans the whole life of military aviation, and no one now living can speak with more authority about the growth of air power. Global Mission...
...love with Patches, desperately out of love with his "healthily beautiful, loving, young, vigorous, clear-eyed, innocent, sexless and inexperienced" fiancee back on Long Island.To straighten out this situation and break his engagement in a face-to-face encounter, he hops the Atlantic without papers, fails in his mission when his socialite parents beg him to change his mind. But back in England 24 hours later, Jerry sees his WAAF and can't resist taking the plunge anyhow: "Patches, I've found you ... I love you . . . Will you marry me, Patches . . . please, dear Patches...
...Spanish Union said, "We admit that the IUS kindled great hopes in our friends of the interior as well as in ourselves (Union members in exile). . . . (But) the IUS has not been able to achieve its mission as a result of the political shade that has been cast upon that organization...