Word: potomac
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bond among men who have known battle, those who survived it and those who did not, held together the band from the rose garden as they crossed the placid Potomac in the 82° afternoon sun to the shining white memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. There, in fresh graves flanking the tomb of World War I's Unknown Soldier, they were to bury two unknown comrades of the last two wars. Close overhead came Air Force jet fighters and bombers, the lead wingman of each formation dramatically missing to represent those who do not come back...
...three chaplains, in Latin by the Roman Catholic, English by the Protestant and Hebrew by the Jew. After the boom of a final 21-gun salute, and the rattle of three volleys of rifle fire, the haunting call of Taps echoed across Arlington's markers and across the Potomac as the last solemn note of a day of communion among patriots...
...being reasonable, even though Congress had tried to pretend that it was an important antirecession remedy. Among the 154 projects in the barrelful, 28 costing $350 million looked like fat bacon. Example: one section of the bill laid out $269,000 to be spent on the lower Potomac River near Hull Creek, Va. to build a harbor for 41 small boats and 42 skiffs. Army engineers tagged the job uneconomical; the Virginia state government, by failing to promise matching funds for half the cost, flunked what the President considers "the best test yet devised for insuring that a project...
...avoid rush-hour tie-ups on the Potomac River bridges, they boarded a Marine Corps helicopter on the White House south lawn in Ike's first such use of a whirlybird. They touched down 3½ minutes later at National Airport. On the flight out, Columbine Pilot Lieut. Colonel William Thomas learned that the Kansas City Municipal Airport was fogged in, instead put down at the Naval Air Station in Olathe, Kans. Startled Navy officials hastily assembled a motorcade of staff cars, managed to get the President and Milton into a Navy Chevrolet for the 27-mile ride into...
...Washington, hazel-eyed, 19-year-old Ruth Eisenhower, daughter of Johns Hopkins' President Milton Eisenhower, jotted a new entry on her crowded September calendar: after her debut in Baltimore and before she returns for her sophomore year at Swarthmore College, she will reign as queen of the annual Potomac River President's Cup Regatta...