Word: respondants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years ago, have brought city papers many a sensational beat. Gene Howe's has brought the Globe-News an average of 50 stories a week: news of murders, wrecks, births in cabs, isolated hail storms, family fights, flights of geese. So enthusiastically do Globe-News reader-reporters respond that one, a woman involved in an auto accident, telephoned the paper before she called the police...
Canada's military authorities had just opened a drive to get recruits for overseas service. War Services Minister Leo Richer LaFlèche had said: "If we put forward the proper appeal to the French Canadians, they will respond. . . ." Perhaps Cardinal Villeneuve had made the proper appeal...
Congresswoman Frances Bolton, mother of the bill creating the Cadet Nurse Corps, warned nurses after a trip to the European front: "If you do not respond, then we on Capitol Hill will be forced to find some way, because we will have our men cared for." But there did not appear to be any way short of a draft. U.S. women had endless reasons for not volunteering...
...likes important people and they usually respond. In England he cultivated the British, had tea occasionally with the nobility. His old friends in the Army extend from General Somervell to General MacArthur. This gregariousness has done his career no harm, but he is just as loyal a friend to many people who are not important...
...have ever so publicly embodied desperation. He talked & talked as if he would talk away the hovering spectre of failure. He promised victory, threatened dire punishments to Germans who failed to respond to the crisis. He proclaimed total war as if it had never before been proclaimed on earth-not even after Stalingrad. The desperate measures he announced might stave off defeat for months. But to many, his threats must have seemed less like total war than total mobilization of the last broken cracker on the bottom of the barrel...