Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instructor at Virginia Military Institute, a devout Presbyterian deacon, had been wounded in the hand at Manassas and had fought for the rest of the day with one arm upraised to stop the bleeding. Some of his men thought he was invoking the blessing of heaven. When another officer rode up to say, "General, they are beating us back," Jackson replied: "Sir, we'll give them the bayonet...
...gentle domestic manners, his low voice, soft blue eyes and intellectual forehead, his delight in theological discussion, all masked the most furious fighter of the Confederacy. If retreat was necessary, he prayed that "a kind Providence may enable us to inflict a terrible wound." An officer who rode with him noted: "In advance, his trains were left far behind. In retreat, he would fight for a wheelbarrow." He marched and starved his men, if necessary, without mercy...
...Good Drive!" The President rode between two giant assembly lines, where a hundred General Lees-the new all-welded medium tank-were abuilding. He waved to 5,000 astounded workmen, who lined up in a solid wall to greet him. On the testing ground, he watched 50 tanks roar through mud and dust. One tank drove straight at him, slogged through a muddy testing hole, ground to a stop ten feet away. The young Polish driver stuck his dirty face from the turret and grinned. "A good drive!" shouted the President...
...Willow Run he rode with Henry and Edsel Ford down the half-mile assembly line. It was unbearably hot under the miles of mercury-vapor tubes that light the huge plant; the radiator of his car began to boil...
...Long Beach he visited the Douglas aircraft plant. In San Diego he rode through the streets so often-on his way to Tom Girdler's Consolidated Aircraft plant, to the Navy's Camp Pendleton, to the home of Son John Roosevelt-that the whole city turned out to watch. One rumor had it that General Douglas MacArthur, in mufti, was a member of his party...