Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldierly tone of his book will remind Americans that, even if they have forgotten it in peacetime, they are one of the world's great warrior nations, that the whole continental seaboard is a great field of their battles from Quebec and Louisburg to Chapultepec; that the pitting of Americans against Americans resulted in the world's most terrible battles until World War I-on the rolling farmlands of Gettysburg, in the narrow valley of Antietam Creek, on the hills at Chickamauga, in the oak and pine thickets of Virginia's Wilderness...
Anticipating a spring rise in spirits and excess of energy among the inhabitants of the Yard, the Freshman proctors called informal meetings of their charges last night in an effort to remind them of the parietal rules...
...kind of speech that Americans eat up. It seemed careful, vague, not so much impersonal as depersonalized. As a statement of Britain's war aims it was neither as stirring nor as plain as Winston Churchill's words, which always have enough tabasco in them to remind Americans that Winnie is half-American himself. Nevertheless, though Lord Halifax was obviously not the kind of man who ever could or ever would quite clear his throat of British phlegm, by last week the U. S. had begun to appreciate British understatement, of which the Ambassador...
...first shaky hours in the air, spectacular panoramas of scores of planes in formation, a gasp-making exhibition of hedgehopping over the Texas countryside. And after graduation there is a mock night air raid on Los Angeles photographed both from the ground, where the stabbing searchlights may remind Californians of a market opening, and the inside of a B-17 (Flying Fortress) bomber, where cinemaudiences can get a close-up of destruction in the making...
...entire myth was the brain-child of the '44 Jubilee Committee, attempting to remind its classmates to invite their home-town girl to the big Freshman weekend during the spring vacation. Designed and penned by Edward Mahoney '44, already famous for his Petty-like posters displayed for past. Freshman affairs, the letters coyly answered an imagined invitation to the Jubilee...