Word: porch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These riflemen on the porch roof of the Chatham (La.) public library were not playing. While indifferent townsmen lounged below, they were busy sniping at Blue troops in maneuvers which, beginning this week, sent 450,000 troops into battle between the Second and Third Armies. To prepare the U.S. public for such casualties as falling off roofs and crashes in tanks and planes, the U.S. Army last week announced that 136 soldiers might be expected to die during the 15-day September maneuvers (17 from disease, 119 from injuries), that as many as 40,000 more might be expected...
...Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, the British Minister of Supply, his dynamic little wrinkled-apple face alternately creased with huge smiles and deep worry lines. Beaverbrook, the British production fireball, had one simple mission: get more of everything for the British. At a restless press conference on the British Embassy porch he obligingly reported the fact, and even obliged cameramen by patting Ambassador Halifax's dachshund, Franklin ("What if the demmed thing bites me?" he demanded). But further than that he offered little except the remark that "I'm the biggest buyer on the cuff you've ever seen...
Action. Having spoken, the President went to Hyde Park, read, played with his Scottie, Falla; hashed things over with Mrs. Roosevelt as they sat on the porch at Hyde Park. Behind the diplomatic scenes wheels ground steadily. At the end of a baking-hot day, after the last stock exchange (San Francisco) had closed, the curtain lifted to disclose the President issuing an order freezing all Japanese assets (probably about...
...Brazil. The women have made a deal: Maggie to get Sandra's baby, Sandra to get a trust fund. It takes all Maggie's bullying, pampering, coercion to get the spoiled pianist to produce the baby. When the baby is finally born, Maggie subsides on the moonlit porch outside the house with all the apparent relief of an anguished father...
...bought canned stuff from the general store at the roadside, walked back to the cars with the shoulder-hitching, spraddle-legged walk that is proper affectation for cavalrymen even when they are motorized. The General's O.D. sedan whirled around the bend and pulled up alongside the store porch. General Fredendall, a short, lean-flanked infantryman, stopped to chat with newsmen. "A good looking outfit," remarked one of the newsmen. The General's reddened cheeks wrinkled in a grin. "Good enough," said...