Word: soiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once he was a farm boy in Illinois, hating the black soil and the toil, reading the Bible and Shakespeare, yearning for Thespian grace and glory. He was a student in Kansas, boning for the law and persuading his roisterous fraternity fellows to pay a farmer for four stolen turkeys. He was a starveling lawyer, writing orations for practice in the hot, sandy afternoons; galloping his horse to & from a young man's fun in the Kansas night. He was the smartest sprig in Idaho, taking up for downtrod Chinese, farmers, Mormons while he served the corporations which owned...
...fanfare. India waited. Lord Irwin sent word that he considered Good Friday an inappropriate day for pomp. Instead he went ashore unofficially to attend a three-hour Good Friday agony service in Bombay. Not until the next morning did the new ruler officially step from his launch to Indian soil while the white warships of the Indian squadron boomed 31 guns...
...Epiphany, when Rumanian Orthodox Church bishops "bless the waters," Carol spoke. He virtually dared Stalin to cross the border. "When I set foot on the soil of Bessarabia, I feel I am entering not a country which has been attached to Rumania, but a country which was, is and always will remain Rumanian territory," said the King...
...Moscow? Have you heard that the soldiers have no gloves and thin shoes-though the Government told us that we civilians must put up with our scarcity of clothes so that the defenders of revolution might lack nothing? Have you heard that the Finns have driven onto Russian soil at the very place where our men were supposed to be having their only real success? And that we have no chance of winning until warm weather returns? This is the campaign which was to end in ten days...