Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ashes. None of his original ties to Britain & Empire had come to him by birth; his paternal ancestors had migrated from Holland more than a century before; he himself had grown up as an old-stock Dutchman among alien but ruling British colonials. Now he declaimed against naked imperialism, shed his British citizenship, trekked north, became a burgher and a leader of the Transvaal Republic...
...light was whether General MacArthur is an isolationist. This question was of serious concern since much of his support has come from such extreme isolationists as Colonel Robert R. McCormick.† Then last week Manhattan Lawyer Henry Breckenridge, onetime Democrat and onetime close friend of Charles A. Lindbergh, shed light on this issue. In a letter to the Herald Tribune, he quoted a telegram General MacArthur sent from Manila in 1940 to William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Said General MacArthur, at the height of the interventionist -isolationist debate: "You have asked...
...Army and Navy, in official manuals, advise that if no other food is available, men lost in the jungle can eat termites (with wings removed), grasshoppers, crickets, ant eggs, beetle grubs. Further light on bugs as food was shed recently in the Australian Medical Journal...
...processions, rich dinners, and a strange girl to play with." She had been the child-mother who bore him four sons, suffered his youthful, jealous rages, stayed behind when he journeyed to London schooling. She had been the gentle, illiterate, aging woman who became his "sister" and lesser disciple, shed her high caste, mingled with untouchables, picketed toddy (palm wine) shops, urged India's fettered women to join "the struggle" for India's freedom. Once she had said that she was happiest in jail, where she held her fasting husband's cup, rubbed his hands, fanned away...
...slightest idea of what it's all about. . . . I'm just a country boy. . . ." Said Ickes: "I do know Mr. Briggs but I do not know Mr. Sparks. I do not know Dr. Umphrey Lee. ... I know nothing whatsoever. ... I doubt if I can shed any light...