Word: sweatingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sweat about the weather. Through a veil of haze, stars twinkle only dimly. It rains and we find shelter in a bamboo alert shack. Towheaded Captain Charles Sawyer, who is to lead our fighter escort, walks around with a haunted look. For seven months, over Burma, Siam and Indo-China, he fought in the old A.V.G.; then he joined the Army when most of his buddies went home. Three weeks ago he got lost in a storm, crashed his plane in the mountains near Tibet, escaped three firing squads of hill tribesmen, walked back into China proper...
...appointment with Hull. . . . The book ends, 202 pages later, with the scene of Congress declaring war: "There were no tears. . . . There was no prayerful silence. . . . It was just the American Congress, its neck bowed, its back arched, and itself buckled down to the job of giving 'blood, sweat and tears' in any volume necessary to defeat the most audacious attack of the aggressors...
...thin-lipped American, with a weather-beaten face, a dour smile, a sunburned neck: he might have been a hunter in the backwoods of his native Florida. But like the plain, lanky Americans who hacked the nation out of the wilderness, "Vinegar Joe" had created an epic-out of sweat and weariness and malaria, of retreat and desperation and endurance. And last week what he was doing for China (see p. 37) was worth all the noble and encouraging talk in the world...
...answered his critics in tones both of challenge and of humility. He made a long appeal for sympathy because he had been criticized while he was overseas talking to Franklin Roosevelt. He also made the salutary admission that "I have stuck hard to my 'blood, toil, tears and sweat'-to which I have added muddles and mismanagements...
...most excruciating ailments known to medicine, angina usually comes on after an emotional shock or physical effort. It often follows the same pattern: a piercing stab in the shoulder, a "squeezing" of the heart, lightning pains down the left arm, a drenching sweat, and over it all, a terrible sense of impending death. According to prevailing theory, angina is caused by constriction of the heart's blood vessels which cuts down the supply of fresh blood at the very time when it is most needed...