Word: polkas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later on I checked up with the officer of a minesweeper which had been operating on the west side. He said: "Down there, the sea is so congested with floating bodies we can't avoid running them down. There was one woman in khaki trousers and a white polka-dot blouse, with her black hair streaming in the water. I'm afraid every time. I see that kind of a blouse, I'll think of that woman. There was another one, nude, who had drowned herself while giving birth to a baby. A small boy of four...
...cruiser right alongside us is pouring it up (sound of ack-ack). . . . Something burning is falling down through the sky and circling down. It may be a hit plane (machine-gun fire). Here we go. They got one! They got one! . . . (Gun crew voices: "We made it look like polka dots!") The lights of that burning Nazi plane are just twinkling now in the sea and going out. . . . Now it's ten past twelve, the beginning of June...
...Charley Mac," Republicans had a tactician who knew when to hold his pack, in order to let the Democrats knock each other out. The Democrats usually obliged, after the 1937 Supreme Court crisis. Others could make windmill orations or pass pious resolutions. Charley, imperturbable in his inevitable polka-dotted bow tie, held off cynically, did the real work in the Senate cloakroom. As Republican power grew, some wanted the Party to wage more courageous fight, but he was boss...
...President looked fine: vigorous, firm, clear-eyed. But something has gone. That surpassing warmth, that almost electric personal magnetism that was such a tangible things, is dim, or seemed so. He seems more than two years older. Even his polka-dot tie, his lack of vest (as always), his rough, pale grey summer suit seemed too youthful...
...British general led three hip-hip-hoorays. The 86-piece Army band broke out with the Beer Barrel Polka, Ike Eisenhower's favorite tune. Four-starred temporary General Eisenhower stepped down to accept double congratulations. The day before he had received notice of his promotion to permanent full colonel in the regular U.S. Army. Inevitable Army red tape then asserted itself: he was ordered to an Army doctor for a physical examination to show his fitness for the promotion...