Word: window
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Marine Corps, sat at his desk. Above the high scarlet collar surmounting golden epaulets, the Commandant's face was stern. Through the open window came the shouts and murmurs of the camp-the Marines' first headquarters camp in Washington. He set down the date-"Sept. 22, 1800." Over rough paper the quill began to scratch: "Lt. Henry Caldwell "Sir: Yesterday the Secretary told me that he understood one of the Lieutenants of the Navy had struck you. ... I can only say that a blow ought never to be forgiven and without you wipe away this Insult offered...
...fidgeted impatiently the roar of a gathering crowd swelled from the Calle Presidente Zayas below. Then an excited aide rushed to the Mayor, whispered that recalcitrant, anti-Batista councilmen were rumping it in the Municipal Building across the street. Outside the noise grew louder. Someone broke a window. Someone aimed an uppercut at the offender's jaw. Soon the air was full of fists...
...suspension of democracy, as in World War I, he had repeatedly pledged himself to preserve the labor and social reforms made under the New Deal. For no one knew better than he how quickly, unless someone in authority was determined to maintain them, those reforms could go out the window in a crisis...
...solemn, might have been written 50 years ago. He loves to write of ancient monuments, of white-haired workmen pondering on Britain's mighty past. For spice he tells such genteel stories as the one about the airraid warden. (Warden: "There's a chink showing from your window upstairs." Young lady: "That's not a Chink, it's the Japanese Ambassador.") Of Britain's present Cabinet he wrote in last week's letter: "We [the Conservatives] are literally a party with only two men left. .' . . Churchill is one, Beaverbrook the other. . . . Churchill...
...everything merely by tying prices of a few things to the ground. There is only one way to do this job. That is by fiat. ..." William Trufant Foster was just as gloomy, told hardwaremen: "I was on the Consumers' Advisory Board of the NRA and found it was window dressing. . . . The Government can't control the price level and stop the upward spiral." But unlike Johnson, he concluded the Government should keep hands...