Word: wade
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt's legal eagle has been mild as mush, meek as Milquetoast. Ever since Dec. 7, the President has been waiting for him to wade into the ranks of known U.S. Bundists, Fascists and Axis sympathizers. Finally the President could wait no longer. He told Attorney General Biddle to rise up and smite all heathen idolaters...
...Italian threw up his hands. "Ahh, you do notta know by this time what it is thatta you are to do. Stupid, stupid, stupid. You cannot go on the stage or you would be the ruin of the opera!" And he pushed him back into the wings. Wade never saw the footlights...
...others of us were completely undistinguished. Most completely undistinguished of all was Wade Rockwood. He must have had the makings of an opera singer, for he was selected for a special post--that of "dignitary...
...claborate instructions about who to follow and where to stand and he spent most of the evening trying to memorize them. The leader in his game of follow-the-leader was a petulant Italian who repeated his commands some six times. Then about thirty seconds before his cue. Wade got nervous...
...drank it all. They prayed for rain. Without water, they were afraid to eat the hardtack and chocolate. They ate seaweed and some of them drank sea water. Once they came within a few yards of a coral island, but the coral was so sharp that they could not wade ashore. Hunger, thirst and the Caribbean sun began to madden and kill them...