Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody Said Yes. No Senator rose to say that a U.S. serviceman should be denied the right to vote just because he happened to be in Italy or the South Pacific. During six days of soul-searching and shadowboxing on a subject which came frighteningly close to every man's $10,000 a year, each Senator who spoke paid his best oratorical tribute to U.S. soldiers. But the mechanics of the Lucas-Green bill worried the legislators into a psychologically intricate kind of jitters...
...Europe. Then you will have this country of Great Britain, with a glory and an honor and a prestige such as perhaps no nation has ever enjoyed in history. But from a material economic point of view she will be a poor country. She has put her body and soul and everything into it to win the battle of mankind. She will have won it, but she will come out of it poor in substance...
...that was first opened up by Ohio Oil in 1915, has produced some oil and gas every year since. Oldtimers say the gassers used to "roar so damn much you couldn't talk to your wife in bed without yelling." But Nettie never struck enough to keep body & soul together: in 1935, hounded by creditors, she gave up and disappeared from Elk Basin.* No one knows what became of her, but if she could see her homestead today she would feel like shooting herself with her own revolver...
...look to the Atlantic Ocean for their freedom and those who regard every one of the 31 States that clutter up Europe from the Bay of Biscay to the Pripet Marshes as being an integral part of a cultural and spiritual entity. Underneath every other battle for the soul of Europe, the fight between the seaward-looking peoples and the continental landmass peoples rages unchecked...
...Atlantic City's Ritz a beribboned young fighter pilot with the taut-strung face of his trade stood looking out of the window of his room. He wondered why a pilot with a combat career behind him and a restless uneasiness in his soul had been ordered to Atlantic City, of all places. He was not wounded. He was not consciously sick of anything but British flying weather...