Word: warriors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoved out of sight. But last week there reached the U. S. the report of a young visitor to this major theatre of China's struggle-first white man to visit parts of the province in 15 years. What he wrote was enough to make any parlor warrior drop his teacup...
...Against him across the Potomac was an army which could probably have taken Washington in the first weeks of the war, and a commander who outguessed and outfought every Union General. Sandburg on Lee: "Enfolded in the churchman and the Christian gentleman, Robert E. Lee was the ancient warrior who sprang forth and struck and cut and mangled as if to tear the guts and heart out of the enemy. . . ." The Union General George Brinton McClellan, who prudently chose to fight a war of attrition, never meeting Lee if he could help it without overwhelming superiority in manpower, caused Lincoln...
First Lieutenant Billow's testimony (he also said no British warship had, to his knowledge, been sunk by a Nazi bombing plane) was the more impressive when corroborated by no less a warrior than First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. For four weeks an Admiralty commission had chewed its cud over Royal Oak's sinking in Scapa Flow. Last week Churchill stood up, with even more than his usual show of nimble-wittedness, and admitted for himself and the Admiralty that...
...Ohio and the James; east of the shallow, wandering Brazos that flows from dusty New Mexico to the grey waters of the Gulf near Galveston Bay. In little patches hanging on the hillsides of Tennessee; in the red soil of Georgia; in big plantations along the Black Warrior and Coosa in Alabama, in poverty-stricken tenant farms and rundown sharecropping holdings, in syndicate-owned plantations bigger than collective farms, in 25,000,000 acres of the U. S. cotton grew to produce 11,412,000 bales, almost 50% of the world's total...
...well how to read what he saw, guide his acts by what he read. And the People watched the President. Of all the great peoples on earth, only they were utterly free to look, listen, judge, speak. Men and women called upon their President to be statesman, peacemaker, warrior. He was none of these. As in no other week since he entered the White House, he was the President of a political democracy, a ruling servant who could safely do no more, go no farther down his chosen road than the people were willing to allow...