Word: watsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fell, a sleety, chilling March drizzle. Up the green slopes of Arlington Cemetery rolled a black limousine. On a roadway near a freshly dug grave it stopped. Inside, Franklin Roosevelt leaned back against the beige upholstery and looked out on a dismal scene. They were burying big, bluff "Pa" Watson, the man whose boisterous laugh and high good humor had never failed to cheer the President. If Franklin Roosevelt's lean, set face showed any emotion, no one could record it. The rain streaming down the windows curtained the man within. He was left to himself, and his thoughts...
...long voyage home Franklin Roosevelt, sunning himself on the cruiser's deck, had made a decision to report to Congress on Yalta, in person and as soon as possible. Except for the blow of Pa Watson's death, he had returned from the Crimea refreshed in body, mind and spirit. Thirty-six hours after his return, he went to the House chamber...
...salvaging this final game of a night-marish season in which only two games were won, the Crimson came from behind and pushed into the lead during the early moments of the third period. Techman Watson's 10 points had given the Engineers a 19-17 edge at the half...
Center Mike Keene, playing his last game for Harvard, spearheaded the Crimson attack with 12 points, while Watson of M.I.T. finished the night with a 14 point total. Jack Clark, Rip Collins, and Jack Wallace compiled a total of 26 markers for the Crimson...
Robert Burns, greatest of Scottish poets, who supposedly drank himself to death (in 1796) when he was only 37, and whose admirers have periodically attempted to redeem his honor, got his bad reputation newly scotched by Dr. Sidney Watson Smith, onetime president of the British Medical Association. In the B.M.A.'s Journal, Dr. Smith presented medical evidence against the "gossip's fable," declared that Burns "suffered and died from subacute infective endocarditis -that microbic inflammation of the heart which usually has a fatal ending in septicaemia...