Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tartu beach, who worked neck-deep in the freezing, oil-fouled water day after grueling day, were not particularly brave men, but they came to regard the regular Jap air raids as something in the nature of a diversion. These were the sad sacks of 1942 who would go on to beach LCIs at Saipan and Tarawa, Iwo and Okinawa, who would come back to America to find themselves half-strangers in their own land...
...President Truman may, if he likes, regard the car as a personal gift. There is no law covering U.S. citizens' gifts to a President. A constitutional dictum bans the President from accepting gifts from kings, princes or foreign states, but he may accept such gifts for the nation, enjoy their use while he remains President...
...know that old acquaintance will not help them now. Bob Eichelberger is a genial, dryly humorous extrovert with a consuming interest in people and an infinite capacity for liking them. But he is also a steel-hard soldier with a vast respect for unbending discipline and the same reverent regard for spit & polish that he got at the U.S. Military Academy almost 40 years ago. Tokyo's Japs can expect fair and efficient treatment. But no monkey business. And no favors...
PROFESSOR HAROLD J. LASKI-"What precisely is Mr. Laski's authority with regard to all the statements he is making about our foreign policy, and do his statements involve the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs? We know Mr. Laski as chairman of the Labor Party Executive [Committee] which has the right to describe their own party as they wish to do. But this is a very important body. I have been told that it has the power to summon Ministers before it. Evidently Mr. Laski has great power and evidently he is keen to assert it. ... Broadly speaking...
...After all stated their opinion, His Majesty was graciously pleased to make the final decision, stating that . . . whatever the future may bring in regard to his personal safety he should not like to see any more of his subjects killed and the country reduced to scorched earth. . . ." Thereupon Hirohito broke down, sobbed, wiped his tears away with his white-gloved hand. His ministers and aides, "profoundly impressed by the gracious concern of His Majesty . . . silently bowed down and wept. Thus the final decision to accept the terms of the Potsdam declaration was taken...