Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ralph "railroader" Rolling, after a lengthy talk on piston rods and steam pressure, has decided with Ray Kallaus that trains were meant to ride on, not to be worked on--at least in their generation...
...have often been far from candid. Samples were the story of the tragic shooting down of U.S. airborne troops by friendly antiaircraft batteries off Sicily which the Army and the Navy covered up for eight months; the Patton soldier-slapping affair, suppressed until it had built up so much steam it almost blew the dome off the Capitol. Another sample was the sour finale to Merrill's Marauders (TIME, Aug. 14). A more recent one: the handling of the production-slump story, which, instead of rousing the public to greater effort, provoked controversy and mistrust. A continuing one: overoptimistic...
...Leyte was sunk in a porridge of mud, and its sinking was obscured by a steam of confusion...
Most of last week the barometers told kindly, soft-spoken Omar Bradley (whose oldest friends call him "Omar the Tent-maker") that the weather would not be good. He was out a lot himself in the rain and snow, wiping the steam from his glasses, getting plenty of mud on the paratroop boots into which he tucks his G.I. pants. He knew what the cold, dirty, wet and often hungry doughboys were going through. He wanted to get them out of there, and out of the war, as soon as possible. He looked forward to fishing, back...
...24th hung on, moved slowly forward, watching for the Jap counterblow. Presumably MacArthur's reserves were ready when it should fall. It was a lot different from the way hopeful U.S. soldiers had imagined it after the U.S. steam roller successes in the first week of the invasion. The enemy intended to dispute possession of Leyte; hard fighting was ahead...