Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blackballed by the Quarryville, Pa. Slumbering Ground Hog Lodge. After pondering reports that Mr. Roosevelt is kind to ground hogs, the Lodge decided that he would be too busy to be an active member...
...classes to attend. Reassured, overcoated (without the blanket), the Senator trudged out of the office, along the echoing basement corridor, across Delaware Avenue to the park. His frail frame was stooped. His mane, still growing grandly down to his collar, was greying. Behind him on the whitened ground, he left the mark of his 74 years: the long, slurred footprints of one who has shuffled through the snow...
...morning, when she was late, Jessie's mother drove her to the station. As the train was pulling out, she raced headlong across the platform, slipped, plunged forward. Her mother screamed as the wheels of the train ground over...
...memories motivate many a Pippin canvas. One shows shell holes in the Champagne sector, bursting from the ground like monster morning glories. Another, End of the War-Starting Home, has grey-clad Germans holding up their hands in surrender, "because they had to quit before we could go home." Other ideas come to him from magazines, books, out of his head. A dozen people have bought his canvases, from Chester County socialites to Cinemactor Charles Laughton, who bought his Cabin in the Cotton...
...disillusionment? The Bible says the struggle to reach the kingdom of God is infinitely long, infinitely hard, but that the loss of one battle must not deter those who are sure they are on the right road. It seems likely that they were never on any surer ground than the merest private in the A. E. F., and that they are simply mirrors of the public mind...