Word: spokenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deeply interested in people. His cables were filled with descriptions of the men he met-the soft-spoken Marine colonel known as "The Brute," the New Zealand major with a fresco of butterflies and birds tattooed on his chest, the scared troops aboard an assault ship with their faces smeared with green camouflage paint and softly singing as H-hour approached...
...main fact was that the man most qualified to dispel the world's doubts about the U.S.'s intentions had spoken up. U.S. Senators who believe in international participation by the U.S., many of whom could scarcely believe their ears, were amazed and, generally, pleased. U.S. press reaction was also favorable-save for the grumpily isolationist New York Daily News, which thought that the Senator had delivered a mortal blow to the Republican Party; the Daily News demanded a new "nationalist" (isolationist) party. Pundit Walter Lippmann thought it one of the few speeches likely to "affect the course...
Last October Montana's spare, slow-spoken Representative Michael J. Mansfield received a surprise summons to the White House. Said Franklin Roosevelt: "Mike, I want you to go to China...
...hundred and eighty-two soldiers and two officers had been charged with taking some $200,000 in black market cigarets alone. The trials had begun and some of the defendants had already spoken up. As they talked, the line of uniformed racketeers seemed to grow & grow...
...whole, he remains an unknown quantity. Said the Manchester Guardian last week: "His opinions on many great questions are still hidden, for he has spoken little and written less . . . Dr. Fisher has still to prove himself." Even his churchmanship is uncertain, as the distinguished liberal church journalist Sidney Dark caustically noted: "I have no idea whether Dr. Fisher is high or low or broad...