Word: ramrodded
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...after eleven o'clock last Saturday morning, the vicinity of Sever Hall was the site of much activity. Harvard students, finishing up the last classes of the day in anticipation of a big afternoon at the stadium, dribbled out of Sever's wide portal in slovenly contrast to the ramrod posture and brass-buttoned uniforms of members of the Military Academy, who, collected in small dignified groups, were chatting away with one another in a way becoming cadets...
...gentleman-at-large" had driven away from Buckingham Palace, another motor had passed him on the Mall going in the opposite direction. Sitting in it ramrod-stiff was hawk-nosed, sallow-skinned Chancellor of the Exchequer Arthur Neville Chamberlain...
Last week this definitely anti-Soviet and anti-Left ramrod now in the making was giving European Communists and Socialists sleepless nights and in Yugoslavia they turned loose every effort to help swell the crowds that huzzahed in Belgrade for President & Mrs. Benes & Democracy...
...Stoyadinovich believes in he lately showed by signing with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, son-in-law of Il Duce, a mutual pact of Italo-Yugoslav solidarity. This can be followed by rapid extension of what Premier Mussolini and General Goring call "the Rome-Berlin Axis," making it a ramrod of Power shooting eastward through the Balkans, with Bulgaria already lined up and Rumania not too coy to the seductions of Dr. Schacht and his German trade treaties...
...waters of the Pacific rolled blue and calm one day last week as a gunner aboard the U. S. S. Wyoming, engaged in war games off San Clemente Island, took his ramrod to seat a shell in the breech of a 5-in. gun which was participating in a barrage to cover a landing party of Marines. The gunner's thrust was his last. As he shoved home the shell, up with a roar went the breech in a great red flare of flame and blood against the blue. "I saw one boy sort of drift past me," recounted...