Word: tented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Last month the girls were touched when an article praised them for sharing the G.I.s' mud and discomfort without a whimper. In Belgium Lieut. Slanger and her tent mates talked it over. That night, by flashlight, she wrote an answer: "We have learned a great deal about our American soldier and the stuff he is made of. The wounded do not cry. Their buddies come first. The patience and determination they show, the courage and fortitude they have is sometimes awesome to behold...
...used with dulling regularity; he called upon the citizenry to consider the horrible facts of the public debt, and New Deal bureaus, and unblushingly cried out a warning against U.S. Communists. But with John Bricker, as with Billy Sunday, it was delivery rather than text which filled the big tent...
Northwest Passengers. The St. Roch picked up some passengers on the way. She ferried an Eskimo family from Baffin Island to Herschel. Island, not far from the mouth of the Mackenzie River. Mother, father, grandmother, five children and 17 dogs insisted on staying topside, pitched their pup tent on the open deck...
Last week Egypt's Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha folded his tent and stole out of the Government, at the insistence of King Farouk and amid the chatter of the coffeehouses. King and Premier had worked in uneasy partnership for two and a half years. Four months ago the King banned Nahas Pasha from the palace for a fortnight, was induced to receive him again only on the intercession of British Ambassador Lord Killearn. This time Britain did not intercede. To the Abdine Palace to form a new Government the King summoned portly Achmed Maher Pasha, President...