Word: uncomplainingness
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Morning found us at divisional headquarters waiting to move up. But the attack was bogging down. I trudged over, to the hospital to see the wounded. Casualties had been heavy and hospital orderlies were working fitfully among the bloody, uncomplaining bodies. The smell of the old barn and the fetid...
Nearly all wounded men brought to field and evacuation hospitals go first to "pre-ops" or "shock tents." There they lie pale and uncomplaining in the eerie, khaki shadows of a single string of overhead lights while they absorb whole blood or plasma. Blood is a miraculous strength-giver. In...
For Sam Woodfill, the order to return to active duty was belated recognition for another World War I feat: he knocked out a series of German machine-gun nests alone, incidentally killing two Germans with a trench pick. He too received a Congressional Medal of Honor, and decorations from six...
*Sumner divided society into four groups: A and B- "self-righteous uplifters"; C-hard-working, self-reliant, uncomplaining taxpayers; D-riffraff. "A and B," observed Keller, "put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D." In Sumner's and Keller's view...
> Both Messrs. Taft and Gannett showed campaign movies, but found few takers for such 16 mm. cinema. Of the ten candidates, only Mr. Gannett, a Dry who will not accept beer advertising in his 17 newspapers, formally served free liquor to callers. Only Mr. Gannett hung the hotel lobby and...