Word: strung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When dapper, high-strung Brigadier General Jacques Leclerc, commander of the French Second Armored Division, burst into Paris, he carried a cane. It was the same cane with which, when he fought the Axis in Africa, he used to draw sketches in the sand at military conferences...
...High-strung Bill Sinek relaxes not only by playing polo ("golf is an old man's Came"). He also throws massive parties for his friends. At a dinner he gave for some railroad men in 1938, Sinek had two circus elephants brought into the grand ballroom of Chicago's Hotel Sherman to entertain the guests...
...worn, plum-colored rug in the Victorian living room, out onto the spacious back lawn. Underneath a rose arbor the Senator, in an ice-cream-colored linen suit, shook hands at least 3,000 times, flatteringly remembering many a first name. At nightfall people were still coming; lights were strung over the arbor and the reception went on. It was one of the biggest nights in Independence since 1834, when town roughs burned down nearly 300 Mormon houses...
...dawn when Barrow and I joined the troop movement; the cruelty of the heat and cloudless skies was already unbear able. The whole Sixty-Second Army was on foot. As far as you could see, strung over the horizon through rice paddies, in single file along the ruined rail bed, crawling through ditches on the devastated highway, were single files of Chinese troops...
General De Gaulle, with a horde of reporters strung out after him, strode down the low, vaulted corridor to the room of 83-year-old General John Pershing. The conversation jerked along, via an interpreter...