Word: palme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey air. Troopers carried the coffin into the grey, unfinished Washington Cathedral. A dull light edged through the rose window, on the guard of honor, the Union Jack, the Ambassadors, the Supreme Court Justices, the generals, the Cabinet officers, the wreaths of chrysanthemums from President Roosevelt, of laurel and palm from King George VI. In the middle of the service there was a special prayer: "Most merciful and compassionate God and Father of all men, we commend to Thy loving care and protection the people of Great Britain. In this hour of their need do Thou strengthen and sustain them...
...always defeated. Ignored were Franklin Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau in 1937, and again last session. But now Messrs. Roosevelt & Morgenthau had a new argument: national defense. Of untaxable securities tabasco-tongued Mr. Morgenthau last week snorted "Slacker money!" and he complained because millionaires could loll in untaxable unholiness in Palm Beach this winter...
...brace; 3) wrist is not straight; 4) entire arm is crooked, which will cause the recoil to be directed off his body at an angle; 5) left arm is tensely drawn across his body, instead of being in one of the three approved positions - at side, bent with palm flat on hip, or hand relaxed in pocket...
Last week, radio and cable on the Fiji Islands, 2,500 miles south and west of their destination, the Marquesas, began spelling out high adventure's ending. According to the messages, a Seventh-Day Adventist missionary, skirting the jungly, palm-lined shore of Vanua Levu Island in his ketch, had sighted a small, battered craft impaled on a coral reef. On board, to his horror, he found an emaciated woman prostrate and unconscious, another woman and a man both dead. On the stern of the boat was her name: Wing...
...sensing the end of a falling market in 1927, he bought Mexican Petroleum, pushed it up 75 points, suddenly went off on a vacation with another bull fortune in his pocket. Unable to get a lower berth on a Florida train, he chartered a special to take him from Palm Beach to Jacksonville...