Word: sheaf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future biographers of Adolf Hitler Frederick C. Oechsner, longtime (twelve years) United Press Central European manager just home from internment, offered a juicy sheaf of notes. Items...
Into the office strode handsome, hefty Captain John L. McCrea, the President's Naval aide. He handed the President a sheaf of papers. Franklin Roosevelt read the news: the great Battle of the Coral Sea had begun; the U.S. Navy had already sunk seven Japanese warships...
...last week were thousands on thousands of ablebodied, well-meaning male citizens itching to get into the Army or Navy. The hitch: they wanted commissions. All of them had a sheaf of well-groomed personal reasons why they should be officers. But few of them had any inkling of what the armed forces actually wanted, or of how to get their commissions...
...effectively sell his totalitarian ideas to the French people. But the solid figure of Ambassador Leahy was a constant reminder that the Allies would greatly disapprove, and might, after all, win the war. The Marshal had just shown that he was well aware of that possibility by giving a sheaf of assurances to the U.S. Government...
...left his job as teacher. On the desk of the St. Paul's business manager he dropped a sheaf of unpaid bills, all his money and stocks to meet them. Nine-tenths of the bills were for milk sent to neighboring poor people. He went off to Newport News, crammed 25 hours of air training into three days, went to France...