Word: utterance
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...some 20-odd years my generation (the cannon-fodder of 1940-41) has had preached to it day and night the brutality, the folly, the utter stupidity of war. Also presented to us-in cold, unvarnished logic-was what we got out of the last war: not the preservation of democracy in the world as we so naively hoped, but thousands of maimed bodies and saddened homes, billions in unpaid war debts...
Last week he looked tired. But weariness sat on him lightly, like a film of ash over a smoldering fire. Powerful, solid, imperturbable, he sat at his desk with an air of utter confidence-the alert, nonchalant confidence of a skilled worker moving swiftly in a routine task. The crushing responsibilities of 1940 he wore as familiarly, as easily as his speckly seersucker suit, buttoned into thick wrinkles over his paunch...
Around midnight. Bones men disperse quietly to their rooms, may not utter a word, even to their roommates, until next morning. Best-known tradition is that a Bones man must leave the room when an outsider mentions his society's name. Favorite gag in Harvard Hasty Pudding shows: someone says "Skull & Bones" and a tramp jumps up, stalks...
...survivor, Thomas H. Jones, said later: "I thought the world was coming to an end. . . ." Said Dr. Harold Thompson: "There was a terrible smash, bang and roar, followed by a queer grinding. ... I was tossed along the aisle of the car. There was utter darkness. The most remarkable thing was the great silence that followed...
...moment a dull cloud of misunderstanding hovers over us. But clouds blow away before a clear breeze from the upper skies. If some leader of a political party, some candidate for the presidency, had the courage of Bishop Lawrence to utter plain truths, the cloud would disperse and thousands would leap to his call...