Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning from a grateful family at Tempelhof airdrome. The Germans are always turning up with flowers and the airmen are always embarrassed (but pleased too). More painful than the actual donation is the necessity of carrying the flowers into the operations room. There is always some arch clown to say: "Getting married...
...fish, but it was good." They had a little informal conversation with the control tower. (British pilots are still lost in wonder at the informality of U.S. communications. One British pilot walks around Berlin shaking his head and telling everybody he overheard a U.S. airman on the strip say to his control tower, "Just give me the woid and I'll make like a boid.") Through the earphones came an efficient voice from the control tower. "2623, you are cleared for take-off." Down the runway went the plane. The voice said: "2623, airborne at zero three...
...separatists [the R.P.F. name for Communists] were to enter what is conventionally known as the government of France, from that moment legitimacy would be ended . . . If the wretches were to invite into the government the men who do not play the game of France, then who would dare to say that we would still be in a state of legality...
...company of those who stand in the beam of the light by which the path of true progress for that time is discerned is always small. Remember Wilberforce and the early Abolitionists; remember the twelve Apostles and the company gathered round them . . . We peer into darkness, and none can say with certainty what course the true progress of the future should follow . . . The redemption of man is part ... of a greater thing-the redemption, or conquest, of the universe. Till that be accomplished the darkness abides, pierced but unillumined by the beam of divine light. And the one great question...
Freeman, who has a maxim for everything, likes to say, "One of the great things about life is to keep movin' and not hurry, and that's largely a matter of schedulin' your day." To run on his timetable, not only Freeman himself but everyone about him has to keep moving. He gets up early-really early. He is up at 2:30, after five or six hours' sleep. (Back in 1940 his rising hour was 4:30, but, says Freeman, "the temptation always is to sneak up a few minutes earlier.") Every activity...