Word: sweating
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...really in a hell of a fix ... Talk about getting peace through the U.N. now sounds as unrealistic as the Crittenden Compromise* at the opening of the Civil War. Today we need a Churchill to call us to our battle stations with promises of nothing better than blood, sweat, toil and tears...
Martin Merchant, long unwashed, his red beard tangled with sweat and dust, sat on a can of mortar ammunition and savored a cup of C-ration coffee. Three flies took swan dives into the coffee. Merchant looked at them philosophically. "You're not going to drink that stuff now, are you?" a correspondent asked. "Those flies just came off those dead over there in the ditch...
...said panting, his fatigues dripping with sweat and his arms so weary they dangled at his side, "over there, there is much shot and much hell. We are doing the best we can. We'll get 'em out." Scribner couldn't remember how many trips he had made across the valley...
Ever since President Truman restricted housing credit a month ago, the building industry has been in a sweat. The Government was going to halt all house construction, so the rumors went, or at least impose such stiff controls that only Government-financed housing would be able to get materials. In Washington last week moonfaced Thomas P. Coogan, president of the National Association of Home Builders (17,000 members), and his executive committee sat down with federal officials to find out just how hard housing would be hit by rearmament...
Army Public Information officers, hot under the collar at Handleman's story, were given fresh cause to sweat only a day later. Spurred on by INS reports that some of the ist Marine Division had reached Korea, the Associated Press announced the arrival of the division nearly 24 hours before it actually happened. Army men were worried, too, by front-line stories detailing U.S. losses and plans-a practice for which the U.P.'s Robert Miller had been reprimanded early in July...