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...most fathers, the Army's letter would have brought pride. To 65-year-old Halsey McGovern, a Washington, D.C. transportation consultant, it brought only anger. He said that he 1) would not accept the honors because he did not believe in medals for heroism, 2) disliked the way President Harry Truman was running the country. He wanted no part of the decorations "if it infers that Truman is a proper party to honor these boys and other boys who died over there...
...hold together the various parts of his face that might otherwise fly off into the corners of the room. But when the judge is pensive, his whole person droops into downcast repose-except for the eyebrows. When he is annoyed, his face never comes to life with sudden anger; it freezes. When at last he speaks, his voice is slow and controlled, and what he has to say is reasonable beyond cavil. His slightest point is sustained with enough logic to swing the fate of an empire...
Bargaining Point. White with anger, Clement Attlee leaped to his feet in protest. "Be careful about this," he warned. "We agreed to the stationing of American bombers in this country . . . but never specifically as a base for using the atomic bomb against Russia." Churchill's retort: "That is the impression which, however mistakenly, they [the Americans] seem to have derived...
Angry Lecturer. Next day, standing with his feet planted wide, Harry Truman read a prepared statement to assembled reporters in a voice that crackled with restrained anger. "I hope everyone understands now that there has been no cease-fire in Korea and that there can be none until an armistice has been signed . . . The continued pressure of our forces on the enemy constitutes the strongest incentive for the latter to agree to a just armistice...
...houses, and scared our professors' little children. A few nights before the set up, Hugh McIsaac, a wonderful, upright, American boy, a veteran, had told this man that if he didn't stop his persecution of us he would 'push him through the wall,' He said it in righteous anger, not meaning it literally, but as any red-blooded man would...