Word: endlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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After his practice was well established, he turned to cartooning again, now sends his rough sketches and continuity to Chicago Artists Marvin Bradley and Frank Edgington to polish up. Bradley and Edgington collaborate in their detailed and realistic pictures of hospital life. Says Edgington, apropos of the endless hospital scenes: "I'm about the world's greatest expert on the drawing of beds...
...Looks Bad." But as it became apparent that 140,000 U.S. troops had met crushing defeat and perhaps faced annihilation, the disaster and its implications became the subject of endless shocked conversations. Some of them were almost monosyllabic: men meeting on the street sometimes simply stared at each other and then voiced the week's most oft-repeated phrase-"It looks bad." This silence marked many men who had fought in World War II. Said a Purple Heart veteran in Des Moines: "I quit turning on my radio-I don't want to hear the news." Through...
After 48 hours of concentrated action on the shoulder of the Red Chinese wedge the Turks were short of food and ammunition, fighting with knives and fists, hurling stones at endless waves of Chinese attackers. Yet U.S. tanks that went forward to rescue trapped Turkish units found the Turks preparing to attack. Ordered to pull back from positions where they were surrounded by the swarming Chinese, the Turkish commander replied in amazement, "Withdraw? Why withdraw? We are killing lots of them...
...Crazy Time." Each gang had a president, a vice president, a war counselor who arranged the time & place for gang "rumbles" (wars), and a "light-up" man in charge of the arsenal. The boys spent their time in endless bull sessions at their "hangouts"-a candy store, bar or front stoop. They played hooky, smoked marijuana, stole, carried knives, revolvers and zip guns. They saw nothing shameful in forcing neighborhood girls into sex relations, often with several members of the gang...
Cause of Freedom. With each succeeding volume, Churchill's canny grasp of the changing world situation and Allied strategic necessities becomes more astonishing. His endless stream of memoranda to subordinates, to F.D.R., to Stalin, are magnificently informed, range from the gravest military decisions to a recommendation (to the Minister of Economic Warfare) to try a John Steinbeck novel. Reading them-and even a Churchill memo on cleaning destroyer-boilers is readable-it is possible to feel the urgency about things large & small that the man felt himself...