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...three weeks, an impressive proof of the swiftness of Allied attack, the disruption of German outfits. In Washington, Secretary Stimson jubilated over the performance of the new divisions of the U.S. II Corps who had never before been in battle. He attributed their "tireless energy" and "freshness and vigor" to the fact that casualties were immediately replaced by fresh troops to maintain the corps at full strength. Later it was announced that among the reinforcements were the U.S. 85th and 88th Divisions-not only battlegreen but entirely composed of draft levies. They distinguished themselves at Terracina...
...past five days I have consumed approximately $ Ib. of codfish. This codfish, taken with parslev sauce, has greatly enhanced my vigor and has done me more good in these days of blackouts and long hours than all the vitamin pills and fanciful health notions officially recommended...
Jimmy Forrestal plunged into his new job with characteristic vigor. Returning from Frank Knox's funeral at Arlington National Cemetery, he put in two hours of work at his office. Forthwith, he inaugurated daily staff meetings with Assistant Navy Secretaries Ralph A. Bard and Artemus L. ("Di") Gates. He conferred with top admirals on progress of the war, talked with the Army and Congressmen over the proposal to combine the Army & Navy into one department after the war. Then, with WPB's bustling Charles E. Wilson, he made a flying trip to Boston to pep up production...
...Said he: "I have never conceived that fraternal association with the U.S. would militate in any way against the unity of the British Commonwealth or Empire or breed ill feeling with our great Russian ally. ... I do not think we have to choose this or that. With wisdom, patience, vigor and courage we may get the best of both...
...saturnine, unhappy man who was one of 19th-Century England's most brilliant, irascible and unpopular essayists (Lectures on English Poets, Spirit of the Age). The book is passionately pro-Hazlitt. White-haired, scholarly Catherine MacDonald Maclean (Dorothy Wordsworth: The Early Years} defends Hazlitt with the slashing vigor of a mother defending a slightly subnormal child...