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...advance against the foe!" ¶ Col. Frederic W. Wise (who claimed that during World War I he had originated the phrase: "Retreat, hell-we just got here!") once heard his men had coined a nickname for him. He lined them up and shouted: "I hear you so-and-sos have taken to calling me 'Dopey.' All right; only don't forget that I'm also Wise'." ¶ The late Major General Smedley D. Butler, made a captain at 19 for bravery during the Boxer Rebellion, once walked alone into a rebel camp during a Nicaraguan...
Jimmy Farrell, H.A.A. equipment chief, answered an SOS from Benny Friedman, who, opening football practice at Brandeis University, suddenly found himself short of uniforms...
Jimmy Farrell, H.A.A. equipment chief, answered an SOS from Benny Friedman, who, opening football practice at Brandeis University, suddenly found himself short of uniforms...
...Doodler. One species of physician is often unaware of the effect that his anxiety may have upon the patient: "If you are anxiously beating out an SOS with your fingers on the desk, or doodling with agitation while verbally reassuring a hypertensive patient . . . the patient will understand what you are doing and reject what you are saying...
...three hours later when Kindley Air Force Base in Bermuda heard from it again. This time the message was terse, urgent: the B-29 was running out of gas and preparing to ditch. A few minutes later the Coast Guard cutter Bibb heard a faint SOS. After that, there was nothing...