Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midweek, a grey stubble was visible on the presidential chin. Encountering Truman at the officers' pool, a newsman remarked: "Mr. President, it looks like you're growing a Vandyke." Said Truman: "That's not a Vandyke, that's a Jeff Davis." The reporter quipped: "You must be courting the Southern rebels." Truman laughed...
...someone must take the rap, Eisenhower is willing: "[My] plan gave the German opportunity to launch his attack against a weak portion of our lines. If giving him that chance is to be condemned by historians, their condemnation should be directed at me alone...
...Berlin to make a go of it with Marshal Zhukov. The Marshal, he found, was merely a high-ranking Kremlin mouthpiece without authority, though Stalin himself said to Ike: "There is no sense in sending a delegate somewhere if he is merely to be an errand boy. He must have authority to act." Ike soon learned that the East-West ideological differences were irreconcilable, that adequate military defense would provide the only real security...
...from the front. Early in the week hungry, hopeless mobs looted 50 rice shops whose owners refused to accept paper currency. From the police station just opposite one shop, a few white-helmeted guardians of law and order watched without interfering. "What shall we do?" asked one. "The government must not stand in the way of its hungry people...
...left with no answer for it all. Some will only shrug their shoulders and tip their snifters. But others will continue to ponder the mystery of the Yale game, remembering the words of the late Professor George Lyman Kitteridge '82, "There must be something to this Yale game, they do it every year...