Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little brown man with the spinning wheel was spinning more & more frantically-for some of the threads were running rather short. Mohandas K. Gandhi was 74. He had striven for a generation to free India from British rule. But India was not independent. Moreover, the war in Europe was drawing to a close. Less than ever would the Raj be impressed by the little brown man's threats and promises to help or hinder Allied victory. He must do something quickly...
...little brown man with the spinning wheel spun more & more frantically, pathetically, for he was old, and he knew with an urgency unknown to most of the politicians he dealt with that until the problem of India's unity and India's freedom was solved, the problem of peace and security for Asia and for the world could not be solved...
...wheel," reports Pertinax, "the Havas Agency handed out advertising contracts. And not merely advertising contracts but the bounty of such gentry whose reputations needed currycombing. . . . The major Paris and provincial newspapers - some ten at most -got the lion's share. The rest plotted and scuffled to get larger cuts...
...months. His eyes glisten when he becomes excited and they were glistening now. And the imperturbable Commander Henry Howard Caldwell, who calmly flew his plane back from Rabaul on Nov. 5, 1943 with a dead photographer and a wounded gunner aboard, a plane with 154 bullet holes and one wheel and half an aileron gone, was behaving like an Annapolis plebe at one of the Navy football games-which also helped to make Caldwell famous...
...President likes to travel fast, even has his valet push his wheel chair rapidly. He is disconcerting, quick, and a mild tyrant in social affairs; he invents complicated variations of poker, which he almost invariably wins and which in consequence he is the only one who enjoys playing. But if the other players protest he good-naturedly returns to the rules. He goes to the movies at the White House about every fortnight, sits in the front row, and comments aloud about the picture. If he did the same thing in a public theater, it "would cause people...