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«Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. [And] if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.»
Author: William Manchester
(Historian, Novelist)
| Keywords:
abstraction, corps, flag, Marine, Marines, ordeal, ordeals
«Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red.»
Author: William Manchester
(Historian, Novelist)
| Keywords:
abruptly, ashes, ember, embers, glowing, poker, pokers, recollection, red hot, smoldering, stirs, The Ashes, uncovering, uncovers
«Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.»
Author: William Manchester
(Historian, Novelist)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Politicians
| Keywords:
abysmally, Churchill, MacArthur
«It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb.»
Author: William Manchester
(Historian, Novelist)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
addressed, Churchill, commons, conversed, Gladstone, House of Commons, inaccurate, superb, the House of Commons, Victoria
«Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at [Pearl Harbor's] officers' mess [and] are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.»
Author: William Manchester
(Historian, Novelist)
| Keywords:
dress whites, frequent, guests, harbor, Japanese, officers, pearl, Pearl Harbor, polite, whites
«The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.»
«Our Boeing 747 has been fleeing westward from darkened California, racing across the Pacific toward the sun, the incandescent eye of God, but slowly, three hours later than West Coast time, twilight gathers outside, veil upon lilac veil.»
Author: William Manchester
(Historian, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Boeing, Boeing 747, darkened, fleeing, gathers, incandescent, lilac, lilacs, Pacific, Pacific Coast, racing, twilight, veil, westward
«And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.»
«The destruction of Manila was one of the greatest tragedies of World War II. Of all the allied capitals only Warsaw suffered more.»
«Its view, however, was magnificent.»
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