Word: sheds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motorcycles and automobiles swept in through the White House gates at 9:30 in a steady downpour. The crowds, sodden and silent after their moment of excitement, jostled slowly toward trolley-loading platforms, the masses of Government workers going back to their offices. Inside the Executive Mansion the President shed his dripping coat and hat and immediately went to his office for a press conference. The President's good humor had a steady, coal-grate glow this morning. The conference began with a burst of laughter. Franklin Roosevelt had just informed the men in the front row that...
...because Spain, Portugal and Switzerland had been invited (TIME, Nov. 6). The six Russian delegates, who had reached Winnipeg en route to Chicago last week climbed into their plane again, flew back to Russia without touching U.S. soil. From informed Washington sources close to the Russians, some light was shed by this frank explanation of the Russian position...
...tweedledee and tweedledum." Negroes are also losing their fear of being terrorized and beaten in retaliation for becoming politically active. "Time and again," says Professor Sterling A. Brown, "I heard the anecdote ... of the new sort of hero-the Negro soldier who, having taken all he could stand, shed his coat, faced his persecutors and said: 'If I've got to die for democracy, I might as well die for some of it right here...
...kindled the flame of true Democracy in the hearts of millions of our citizens, was discarded by the Old Guard element of his own party even though he was the titular head of the organization. These citizens will not forget this act of betrayal, and the "crocodile tears" shed by Republican bigwigs and their obedient press over his passing will only tend to magnify their shortcomings to followers of Wendell Willkie...
America is not a land of ease. We have not paused from action to beget Heroic simile and song and frieze; We have no empire of the mind as yet, Nor have we shed our light within the grave; But, as the sons of enterprise and sweat, Honor the quick, the strong, the free, the brave - The mind whose thoughts are cradled in the hand - The fierce emancipators of the slave Exacting destiny of virgin land. We are the builders of dynamic things, Successors to the spires of Samarkand - Boilers and bars, propellers, wheels and wings...