During World War II, he was a warden who walked the streets at night with a flashlight, making sure everyone's curtains were drawn.
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MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World W...
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JAMES LIVINGSTON By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its fore...
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ROBERT DALLEK My parents met at Fort Riley, Kan., during World War II. My father was an Army civilian; he had been...
MARILLYN HEWSON The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men w...
J. ANTHONY LUKAS The Melvin probably was the only destroyer to sink a battleship in World War II.
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JIM BUNNING World War II was the last government program that really worked.
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LANE EVANS There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II,...
G. EDWARD GRIFFIN World War II has continued well after it was 'finished'
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. I'm sure Richard Kirkland did his best as warden at Pelican Bay State Prison for the short term he w...
RICK NEWTON I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents wa...
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BOBBIE ANN MASON It's the latest game featuring war-torn Germany, where shooters hunt Nazis and supernatural beings d...
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ILAN STAVANS Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clea...
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MARK HARMON Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
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FEISAL ABDUL RAUF I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT The global economy has been growing the last two years at rates not seen since World War II, fuelled...
LUISA KROLL During World War II, law-abiding Japanese-American citizens were herded into remote internment camps...
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PETER JACKSON World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and milita...
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GEORGE WALD At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kep...
NIGEL HAMILTON Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our hist...
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