Sublime

It was part of FDR’s charm: a good story was sometimes preferable to an accurate one.

Ike’s reputation for common sense, his dedication, his sense of humor—and his temper—had become legendary.

Historians call those last years before America’s entry into the Great War America’s Age of Optimism;

As Supreme Commander what he may have lacked in military ability he greatly made up for by the charm of his personality.”

hortatory

As a consequence, those troops who made it to shore found themselves pinned down and unable to move through the elaborate minefields the Germans had laid.

pigeonholed

immured