Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the President also: ¶Gave another posy to the American he admires most, George C. Marshall, at a dinner on the second anniversary of the Harvard speech which launched the Marshall Plan. Marshall would be remembered more as a great peacemaker than as a great soldier, Truman predicted."I believe that in the years to come we shall look back on this undertaking [the Marshall Plan] as the dividing line . . . between the old era of national suspicion, economic hostility and isolationism, and the new era of mutual cooperation to increase prosperity throughout the world." ¶Appointed Mrs. Georgia...
...these are, in the long run, minor criticisms of style rather than content. The people who produced "Home of the Brave" and acted in it had something important on their minds, and they spoke it out with great clarity and courage. For James Edwards, who played the young Negro soldier, there can be nothing but the highest praise. He lived his part, as he has all his life...
Along Nanking Road, Shanghai's main business street, Red soldiers herded captured Nationalists into filling stations. When an angry crowd of civilians turned on a frightened Nationalist soldier, Red troops dispersed them. At one busy corner, a Communist noncom stood guard over a lone Nationalist soldier who squatted self-consciously in a doorway. "What about him?" asked a civilian. "He is very happy now," replied the noncom. The soldier, puffing a cigarette, grinned sheepishly. And under the marquee of the Cathay Theater, a lone Communist private, obviously ill at ease in the big city's hurlyburly, served...
...dying days of 1944, men maimed and crippled by World War II were already being discharged from U.S. service hospitals and returned to civilian life; a war-loan poster bloomed in the land, showing a soldier with empty sleeve holding a little girl in his good...
...front of the house a group of soldiers were wolfing down bowls of rice. When Mrs. Hawkings appeared in her cardigan sweater and plaid skirt, the soldiers stopped eating and gazed at her with awe and affection. One young soldier started singing China's national anthem. "They're nice boys, really," said the mistress of The Limit...