Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shenandoah Valley, through miles of green pine and spruce, past miles of mountain laurel and white dogwood. At the dead-end of a one-way street, facing a hill that led to the main part of town, the President stood before the old Presbyterian manse. He looked pale and worn; his hands trembled. He began...
Marshall. The Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army is also the Commanding General of its field forces-a double job too big for most men, that may yet be divided between two (as it was in World War I). The job has worn George Marshall, but it has not broken him. When he appeared last week before Senator Harry Truman and other members of a special committee investigating defense, General Marshall talked easily and precisely, without notes, pulled many a fact & figure out of his greying head...
...mimosa-like flower of the acacia family, the wattle is worn (in season) by Australians as a national emblem...
...things about the Centuries are undeniably true: i) new generations have constantly dusted off its well-worn prophecies to fit newborn events; 2) a reappraisal of its tempting quatrains is a sure sign of world crisis. Last time they got a good dusting was during World War I. Germans used Nostradamus to prove that they were sure to win; the French foresaw an Allied victory. But if Nostradamus foresaw that his shade would become a U.S. cinema star in World War II, he apparently forgot to mention...
...brave people of London were half-informed, and their nerves were worn down by many things. They were wrong about the blunder...