Word: mottos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest mark as a top transport troubleshooter. West Pointer Tunner headed up the wartime Air Transport Command's ferrying division, later brilliantly steered the arduous Burma-China supply shuttle over "the Hump," the 1948-49 Berlin airlift, and the combat air supply in Korea. (A Tunner-made motto: "We can fly anything, anywhere, anytime.") The job of European Air Force boss was Tunner's first all-round command, broadened his background to make him a top-echelon candidate...
...less but more belief in the decency of human beings." In following years he kept railing at the verbal beginnings of political dishonesty: Auden's talk of "necessary murder" in Spain, the Munich-era optimism of the Chamberlinian press (described in Coming Up For Air), Pig Napoleon's famous motto that "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." He kept emphasizing that there is a truth to all things, that this truth is often so simple that it is we who are too sophisticated to see it, "that however much you deny the truth...
...women's course in modern dance. He was accepted, and by mid-semester was elected to Orchesis, the honorary dancing society. Leeper did his own choreography for the Orchesis show, in which he will wear a fluffy tutu (ballet costume) neatly ornamented by a tattooed Marine motto, Semper Fidelis, on his ham-sized left arm. So far, Leeper has managed to keep his head. Says he: "I'd still rather throw a block in football than throw one of the girls in the dance...
...Civil War to reveal his towering qualities. All that had seemed rough and comic and exasperating in times of peace was shown to be the perfect equipment for a leader of men. His troops marched until they dropped. Stragglers were flogged, deserters summarily shot. His veterans had a motto: "Man that is born of woman, and enlisteth in Jackson's army, is of few days and short rations." Yet with the instinctive knowledge that distinguishes the martinet from the great captain, his ragged "foot cavalry" so revered Jackson that, whenever a burst of cheering swept the camp, men would...
...dirty and discredited banner of McCarthyism which you are trying to raise anew, clothed in the honored respectability of the Harvard University motto. What you are doing seems to me bad for Harvard and for our country. I don't like it, gentlemen. Count me out. Walter B. Raushenbush...