Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kismet, etc. One of the first acts of the new Government after the 1921 ride-in to Teheran was to tear up the treaty the bleak-brained Ahmad had signed with the U.S.S.R. The Bolsheviks condemned the aggressive policy of the Tsar, promised never to interfere in Persia's internal affairs, but reserved the right to occupy it temporarily in the event another power used Persia for an attack on Soviet Russia...
...called on New York to rally behind young "Harry" Stimson. He might as well have referred publicly to Charles Evans Hughes as "Spike." On the stump high-collared Henry Stimson spoke as he did in the courtroom. His argument was well-reasoned, factual, clear. When the time came to tear into Tammany mugs he politely "begged to differ with them." The result was inevitable: a Democratic landslide...
...plea of blonde, admirably curved Edith Rogers Dahl, Generalissimo Francisco Franco four years ago reprieved her check-bouncing, pilot-of-fortune husband, Harold ("Whitey") Dahl, from the death sentence passed on him for flying for the Loyalists. Overcome by her tear-jerking letter, her eye-filling photo, the General wrote her promising to spare her husband, signed his letter with the polite Spanish Q.b.s.p.-"who kisses your feet...
...proclaimed: "Whereas . . . aircraft essential to its [the U.S.'s] armed forces and to the national defense is seriously impaired ... I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, pursuant to the powers vested in me . . . direct that the Secretary of War immediately take possession." This week, on the morning set for reopening, as tear-gas bombs began to lob through jampacked streets around the plants and violence began to spurt, soldiers with fixed bayonets marched into Inglewood...
...Army's Ordnance Department used to be proud of its relatively light (850 lb.), highly mobile anti-tank gun. Ordnance officers encouraged reports that the 37-mm. shell could pierce 1½-inch armor at 1,000 yards, tear through even heavier armor at shorter ranges. Ignored or denied were contrary complaints in the Army that the gun had been hastily adapted from an already obsolescent German model, that the U.S. version lacked the punch to stop modern tanks, that at best the gun worked none too well. Even after the Army quietly turned to 75-mm. field pieces...