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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 1956d3b | American Cancer Society estimates that in 2015 1,658,370 new cancer cases will be diagnosed and that in the same year about 1,600 people will die from cancer-related conditions daily. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| c9bde06 | how to prepare a young generation to run a large, modern, and complex industrial society. Nearly | Tom Brokaw | ||
| adefa06 | These ladies are not stupid, or ignorant. Mrs. Thompson can read both Latin and Spanish, and Ms. Voigtlander is a certified speech therapist who once explained to me that the strange gulping sound that makes NBC's Tom Brokaw so distracting to listen to is an actual speech impediment called a glottal L. It was one of the ladies out in the kitchen supporting Mrs. R--- who pointed out that 11 September is the anniversary of the Camp David Acco.. | David Foster Wallace | ||
| 8265a5a | Back then, there weren't channels dedicated to subcategories of the population. There was no Disney channel, no Food Network, no ESPN, no Bravo. There was Sam Donaldson, Peter Jennings, and, my personal crush, Tom Brokaw on the news, and we got cartoons for three hours on Saturday mornings until CBS switched to golf at 11:00 after the Smurfs. Oh sure, MTV hit the scene in 1981, but we couldn't watch it because of the devil. Apparently we co.. | Jen Hatmaker | ||
| c8453f9 | appropriately | Tom Brokaw | ||
| fdba005 | His superiors in the Merchant Marine were astonished. Here he was, ready to go back to the security of the Merchant Marine Academy for another eighteen months of accelerated training, and he wanted to quit to join one of the most dangerous outfits in the service. His officer offered him a thirty-day furlough to think it over. Broderick said, "No, my mind's made up." | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 92defeb | Tom Broderick spent seventeen weeks in basic training for the infantry in Mineral Wells, Texas, before heading to Fort Benning, Georgia, to become a member of the 82nd Airborne. When he finished his training, a captain offered him an instructor's job and the rank of sergeant. Again Broderick refused the safer alternative, saying he wanted to stay with his outfit and go overseas. Broderick | Tom Brokaw | ||
| e8b286d | immediately, the Battle of Arnhem. It was a joint mission of American and British paratroopers, and their objective was to take the Nijmegen bridge to help pave the Allies' way into Germany and to discourage any German counterattack. "We jumped at about five hundred feet because we wanted to be a low target. It was one-thirty in the afternoon. "The first" | Tom Brokaw | ||
| a820fe7 | gesture | Tom Brokaw | ||
| c290e19 | postwar America. He learned the insurance business by day and braille by night. Before long the VA found him a job with an elderly insurance broker in his neighborhood. Not too long after that, Broderick had established his own insurance | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 3e27ddb | despair hovered over the land like a plague. They had watched their parents lose their businesses, their farms, their jobs, their hopes. They had learned to accept a future that played out one day | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 800c9ca | came of age in the Great Depression, when economic despair hovered over | Tom Brokaw | ||
| bf241b3 | At one time he owned as many as three buildings divided up into rental units. It was as a landlord and as a black man who had overcome so much on his own that he came to hate the welfare system that grew so fast in the fifties, sixties, and seventies. "It just killed ambition," according to Holmes. "I had all of these tenants who in their late twenties had never worked a day in their life. They just waited around for that government check. .. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| b1c886f | A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility. Broderick remembers listening to an NPR broadcast and hearing an account of how two boys found a loaded gun in one of their homes. The visiting boy accidentally shot his friend. The victim's father was on the radio, talking about suing the gun manufacturer. That got to Tom Broderick. "So," he said, "here's this man talking about suing and he's no.. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 91b83f3 | Kill a Mockingbird's small-town setting is what stuck with NBC's Tom Brokaw, who grew up in small towns throughout South Dakota and knew "not just the pressures that [Atticus] was under, but the magnifying glass that he lived in. This all takes place in a very small environment. People who live in big cities don't have any idea of what the pressures can be like in a small town when there's something controversial going on." When Allan Gurga.. | Harper Lee | ||
| aa8bf4d | wanted | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 3905299 | established a thriving medical practice and was a fixture at our high school sports games. He never spoke to any of us of the horrors he had seen. When one of his sons wore as a casual jacket one of Doc Auld's Army coats with the major's insignia still attached, I remember thinking, | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 4bef6ca | Then, just as there was a glimmer of economic recovery, war exploded across Europe and Asia. When Pearl Harbor made it irrefutably clear that America was not a fortress, this generation was summoned to the parade ground and told to train for war. They left their ranches in Sully County, South Dakota, their jobs on the main street of Americus, Georgia, they gave up their place on the assembly lines in Detroit and in the ranks of Wall Street,.. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| e24a48c | coincidence they're there. They don't seem | Tom Brokaw | ||
| dcf6aa5 | lot | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 0ad35c5 | Cancer of whatever flavour triggers a reflective gene: Just let me live and I will learn to be a better person. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 903bb4b | When the war ended, more than twelve million men and women put their uniforms aside and returned to civilian life. They went back to work at their old jobs or started small businesses; they became big-city cops and firemen; they finished their degrees or enrolled in college for the first time; they became schoolteachers, | Tom Brokaw | ||
| cc58df1 | Broderick's unit shipped out to England as replacements for the 82nd Airborne men lost in the Normandy | Tom Brokaw | ||
| d2ef6ac | What was that World War I saying, "Trust the Lord and pass the ammo"? For me, trust the doctors and the Lord and pass the Velcade, Revlimid, dexamethasone." | Tom Brokaw | ||
| b23bcad | ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF D-Day, I was broadcasting from the American cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach at Colleville-sur-Mer in Normandy, one of the bloodiest battlefields in American history. The cemetery is at once haunting and beautiful, with 9,386 white marble headstones in long, even lines across the manicured fields of dark green, each headstone marking the death of a brave young American. The anniversary was a somber and celebra.. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| aecef23 | reform-minded general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, the most powerful position in Russia, the Soviet satellites were moving toward independence. I was in Prague the night the Velvet Revolution separated Czechoslovakia from Moscow's rule and spent time in Poland with the charismatic Lech Walesa, who led Solidarity. Nineteen eighty-nine was that kind of year. Earlier, in June, I finished a commencement address at Tulane University .. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 5af5409 | promoted to captain and given command of a company | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 8ff56aa | Healthcare workers are not being shot at, obviously, but they are exposed to dangerous diseases; they lead unconventional, all-hours lives; they are mission-oriented and they work in a hierarchical environment, with the physicians on top and orderlies doing the grunt work at the bottom. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| d26da37 | assisting in the capture of the 21st German army, which was trying to avoid the Russian troops advancing from the other direction. Ko and his | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 4081586 | by | Tom Brokaw | ||
| f76f077 | Nazi realm. Japan continued its brutal and genocidal war against the Chinese; and in Russia, Stalin was presiding over show trials, deporting thousands to Siberia, and summarily executing his rivals in the Communist party. The Spanish | Tom Brokaw | ||
| fc43682 | he had saved his country with a pact negotiated with Hitler at Munich. He returned to England to declare, "I believe it is peace for our time . . . peace with honor." It was neither. At home, Roosevelt was in his second term, trying to balance the continuing need for extraordinary efforts to revive the economy with what he knew was the" | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 94499ec | great peril abroad. Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, setting a limit on hours worked and a minimum wage. The federal government began a system of parity payments to farmers and subsidized foreign wheat sales. In | Tom Brokaw | ||
| ccde7a9 | book. Myeloma as a description has its origins with the Greek medical genius Hippocrates, who did the earliest known work on cancer, which he called karkinoma (carcinoma) because the tumors often resembled a crab, karkinos in ancient Greek. In modern descriptions, the condition is complex and treacherous: Plasma cells in the bone marrow become malignant and produce tumors, causing destruction of the bone and resulting in pathologic fracture.. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| a8b46c4 | landed | Tom Brokaw | ||
| ed4df98 | constitutional revision commission. Simultaneously, Smith was becoming more involved with his profession through the American Bar Association. He met and became close to Lewis Powell of Virginia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg of New York, future justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. He says, "Powell appointed me to a committee called Availability of Legal Services. We made sure people who needed legal representation and didn't know where to turn or .. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| ec8700a | number of friends I began to understand that this was a mother lode of material that deserved the permanence a book would represent. It was a daunting undertaking: because there are | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 81e432e | One of his first acts was to challenge the established way of doing business by proposing that the legislators lose part of their salary, and pay a fine, if they didn't get the budget prepared on time. His | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 4d470a9 | The D-Day fortieth-anniversary project awakened my earliest memories. Between the ages of three and five I lived on an Army base in western South Dakota and spent a good deal of my time outdoors in a tiny helmet, shooting stick guns at imaginary German and Japanese soldiers. My father, Red Brokaw, then in his early thirties, was an all-purpose Mr. Fix-It and operator of snow-plows and | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 6cdf3c0 | Given a long enough life, cancer will eventually kill you--unless you die first of something else. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 8579baf | walked everywhere. He hated getting rides. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 779a64d | His life before the triumph that defined his legacy was a reminder of the importance of patience, courage, and the absence of self-pity. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| da2c207 | I hoped that as time passed I would be able to raise the cancer shade and allow more light into my daily life. Until then it is CANCER EVERY WAKING MOMENT and the realization that it will be with me until the end, by whatever means. | Tom Brokaw | ||
| 80796fc | Henry Kissinger once said of this former World War II Marine, "If I had to entrust the United States to one man, George Shultz would be my choice." Schlesinger" | Tom Brokaw |