Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mitchell's profile of me (TIME, Aug. 2), which is historical rather than factual, and if not so long could have been one of the best short stories of 1942. He used poetic license in speaking of the three H's (Hangovers, Homelessness and Hunger) attributing the remark to me. The world owes me quite a few hangovers. I am at home in any place where I can manage to write. And as for hunger, I say that I have slept with Lady Poverty but I am a conservative person and do not consider that an introduction...
...spectators were unperturbed by the pitcher's picturesque words and actions, however, for it was common knowledge that Lt. Sharkey at one time in his career was in charge of the press gate at Ebbettis Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. One spectator went so far as to remark that after four years in Flatbush, Lt. Sharkey's mannerisms seemed remarkably mild...
...already apparent that the word 'Fascist' will be one of the hardest-worked words in the Presidential campaign. Henry Wallace called some people Fascists the other day in a speech and next day up jumped Harrison Spangler, the Republican, to remark that if there were any Fascists in this country you would find them in the New Deal's palace guard. It is getting so a Fascist is a man who votes the other way. Persons who vote your way, of course, continue to be 'right-minded people...
Once the landings were over and consolidated, Allen entered the blackest period of his Army life. The 1st Infantry Division found itself in a situation remark ably similar to that which the ist of World War I faced in early 1918. It was broken up. Its battalions, with those of other divisions, were scattered over a 100-mile defensive front, under British and French command. These arrangements may have been unavoidable at the time, but they graveled Terry Allen. "I blooded them, didn't I?" he would say in aggrievement when he thought of his lost battalions. Finally, fuming...
Aspirations. U.S. soldiers "conceive of the jeep . . . not only as a means of winning the war but as a means of improving the peace, of getting to know their own country. . . . A remark often heard is on this pattern: 'When this war is over I am going to go back home and I'm going to marry my girl and I'm going to get me a jeep and I'm going to drive all around the U.S.A...