Word: scrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of U.S. forces in China, gave him an Oak Leaf Cluster for his Distinguished Service Medal. In mass tribute, 163 grateful Chinese organizations gave him 500,000 Chinese dollars ($12,500 U.S.), a gold key to Chungking, an embroidered umbrella, a souvenir book and a scroll...
...bony hands trembled as he unrolled a six-page scroll, but his voice held firm as he read: "History will show the evils from which I saved France.... Each day, with a dagger at my throat, I had to battle the demands of the enemy. ... I surrendered nothing essential. . . . My actions sustained France. I assured France of la vie et le pain (life and bread). ... I prepared the road to liberation...
...million graves of World War I, the shy, slack-chinned, bespectacled Prince found himself constantly teetering on the brink of sacrilege. In Paris he went shopping and discovered he needed money, which imperial etiquette forbade him to touch. Iri London's Guildhall he got entangled in the long scroll of a speech he was reading. The audience, undisciplined by Shinto, found it hard to suppress a titter. Hirohito took a subway ride, incognito, and his entourage was horrified when a brusque Cockney conductor berated him for having no ticket...
...Sent Christmas greetings to the armed forces, to wounded service men, and to the Boy Scouts, the Campfire Girls and other organizations of which he is titular head. He personally presented 258 White House employes with a Christmas card, and a scroll bearing his D-day prayer in red, blue, black and gold letters...
...Chennault, hawk-eyed chief of the Fourteenth Air Force in China, publicly greeted Hollywoodians Jinx Falkenburg and Pat O'Brien, members of a U.S.O. troupe whose performance moved 20th Bomber Command enlisted men-hitherto highly critical of China-Burma-India theater performers- to present them with a commendatory scroll...