Word: oaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...African ribbon, with Star for action over Italian islands; the American Theater ribbon; the Army Good Conduct ribbon; the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters...
Later, in the oak-paneled lobby of the House, thick with smoke and members, Captain Cunningham-Reid blockaded Commander Locker-Lampson against the wall and shouted: "I want to know whether or not you are going to continue making these personal attacks on me. I have no objection to your attacking in the ordinary Parliamentary way, but I object to these dirty underhand personalities...
Merriam was awarded his Oak Leaf soon after General Miles made his inspection of the ASTC quarters in Leverett. Merriam was responsible for the speedy conversion of the Bunnies former lodging into Army barracks. His men greeted his promotion with much enthusiasm...
Crossville simmers quietly in the scrub oak of the Cumberland Plateau, nine bumpy miles from the neat little county seat whose name it shares. In a rough rectangle, 2,400 ft. by 1,100 ft., stretches the barbed-wire stockade, two 12-ft. fences of 21 strands...
...Solution. McWilliams' solution is as simple and drastic as a bog-oak shillelagh, as controversial as a Donnybrook Fair. "The nation now possesses," he says, ". . . the will and the physical unity and the power to achieve what it should have achieved 50 years ago-total democracy in the United States." Congress must enact a "new Federal civil-rights statute." It must outlaw the poll tax in Federal elections and "Jim Crowism on all types of interstate carriers." It must pass a "Federal anti-lynching statute." To implement this policy, it must use the bludgeon of hard cash. All Government...