Word: waterloos
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...Second Day. To Arthur Krock, the New York Times's Washington pundit, the day before the showdown was "the night before somebody's Waterloo." And it was clear between the lines that Arthur Krock thought, and hoped, that the Waterloo would be Henry Wallace's. There was some reason for his belief. Anti-Wallacemen, like North Carolina's upright Josiah Bailey, seemed in complete control. Senator Barkley and Vice President Truman went humbly to Joe Bailey, pleaded with him for an hour to relent. "Holy Joe" Bailey would...
...Waterloo 130 years ago (as Victor Hugo tells it), the strange Yankeeism had been brilliantly and broadly translated by General Pierre Jacques Etienne de Cambronne, commanding the last square of Napoleon's Old Guard. To a British demand for surrender the General shouted: "Merde!"-now proudly (but euphemistically) cited by fastidious Frenchmen as le mot de Cambronne-"Cambronne's [four-letter] word...
Thus did some Britons read, when these events occurred, the news of: 1) the American Revolution; 2) the projected Napoleonic invasion of England; 3) the Battle of Trafalgar; 4) the Battle of Waterloo. Their paper was Berrow's Worcester Journal, founded in 1690, now the oldest surviving English-language newspaper in the world...
Amos L. Hopkins, Jr., of Cambridge, and George J. Foufas of Waterloo, Iowa were the choices from Standish, while the Navy appointments were Thorvald L. Ross, Jr., of Cambridge, and James R. Young, of Atlanta...
Buyers content with simple violence and vice got their money's worth. But if Rome Hanks were sold with a money-back guarantee, its publishers might live to regret its boom. Overwritten, exaggerated, affected and confused, it is an incoherent patchwork of incidents stretching from Waterloo to Roosevelt II, centering in the Civil War and loosely sewn together by the narrative of a young man in search of his ancestors. (One of them is Grand father Romulus Hanks, late Captain of the 117th Iowa.) It is crowded with pas sages of adolescent naughtiness, self-conscious profanity and dreamy, implausible...