Word: scrappers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hair. It had not changed his view on the "patience and knowledge" of the Government of India. "It is patient," Churchill the Subaltern wrote nearly 50 years ago, "because, among other things, it knows that if the worst comes to the worst, it can shoot anybody down." Still a scrapper, Churchill the Prime Minister turned on the rich flow of rhetoric which stiffened British spines in the darkest hours of World War II. This time his finely chiseled words, falling flat and harsh, rubbed salt into the sores of India. "Mischievous half-truths," screamed the Indian press...
...quote from a letter written by myself from Jorgeney, France in April 1918: "There is a former classmate of U.C., a Lieut. Searls here. He is a common earth son of a miner back in California. At college he was a regular fellow, good scrapper, tobacco chewer and brilliant student. Didn't take him long to make good in the mining game; one of the best geologists in the West, and when the War broke out he was earning big money. He enlisted as a private in one of the first engineering regiments going over. Was made a sergeant...
...moonfaced, twinkly-eyed, German-born little scrapper, was only slightly less famed than Williams, Yost, Rockne. He popularized the huddle, introduced the center's short spiral snap. To maneuvers he gave fancy names, such as the flea flicker, the whirligig, the sidewinder, the whoa back, the flying trapeze...
...Fight, Fight." In public the boys stood by each other. Bellamy's older brother, Herb, was a great scrapper. But whenever Herb was in a fight, it was understood that Bellamy would "hover near by waiting for the battle cry." If Herb needed reinforcements, he would shout: "Jump in, Bill...