Word: rufous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Major General Leonard F. Wing, 52, rufous-polled, ruddy leader of the 43rd Division from New Guinea to Manila: after a heart attack; in Rutland, Vt. He was so popular that his men nicknamed their division the "Red Wing," promised to elect him U.S. Senator any time he chose...
...Democratic Senators have fought Franklin Roosevelt more bitterly than Missouri's mulish, rufous Bennett Champ Clark, who never forgets a grudge. (His oldest grudge: in 1912 young Franklin Roosevelt, 30, helped swing the Democratic convention to Woodrow Wilson and away from the Senator's father, the late Speaker Champ Clark.) Yet Bennett Clark, campaigning for his own third term, swallowed his isolationist line and pledged himself to support Franklin Roosevelt's peace program...
William S. Knudsen is grey-haired, bulky, ruddy. Walter Philip Reuther is rufous, pint-sized, pale. Messrs. Knudsen and Reuther first knocked their heads together when one worked for General Motors, the other for the C. I. O. autoworkers' union. Frazzled after a tough bout with a union committee in Detroit, G. M.'s Knudsen once glared at Walter Reuther, barked...
...Said rufous, middle-aged Josephine Dillon (recently employed as dramatic coach by Christian College, Columbia, Mo.) of Clark Gable, her 1923-30 husband, in Gone With the Wind: "The part calls for a big, dashing, handsome man who can really act. I saw my ex-husband in the part and he was magnificent. He hasn't forgotten a thing I taught...