Word: sweatingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First Division, who won $29,000 but lost his furlough privilege on the turn of a card and never did get home . . . about the night-club owner in San Diego who almost turned Sgt. Owen Justin away because his identification card was too stained with jungle sweat to be legible...
Scene IV: the Blackstone. The bosses too, had gone to work. His collar open, his shirt sweat-soaked, Bob Hannegan dickered all Wednesday afternoon in his Blackstone suite. Better than anyone else, he knew that a majority of the 1,176 delegates were both: 1) anti-Wallace, and 2) at sea, waiting for a signal from the lighthouse. Hannegan then let it be known that he had telephoned the President, and that the President wanted Truman. Ed Flynn passed along the same news to New York's 96 delegates. So did Ed Kelly...
...Tribune was not alone in noting the power in the Democratic Party of Sidney Hillman, chairman of the C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee (TIME, July 24). Delegates felt it, and so did the bosses, who were forced to scramble and sweat hard to head off P.A.C.'s tough, emotional though amateur drive for Henry Wallace...
...passed since the indomitable little Man with the Cigar had promised an indomitable Britain nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Visiting the Normandy beachhead this week Winston Churchill, an aging bulldog, but still a bulldog, spoke with proud, paternal informality to a group of R.A.F. men. Net of his remarks: Germany is through-but Britain...
...colonel, who was an American liaison officer with the Chinese Army, peeled off his gun, unbuttoned his shirt, let the sweat pour down his dusty face in tired rivulets. I peeled down to bare middle and the heat slowly settled in to choke us. The train was making about six miles an hour and the colonel was telling us about the evacuation of Hengyang...