Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artillery barrage raked the summit. By the time the 80th ("Blue Ridge,") Infantry Division got to the top, there was little need to fight. The place was strewn with enemy dead and smashed guns. Some anti-aircraft guns were captured intact with their crews. Among the prisoners was one man with a glass eye, one with a wooden leg, two with self-inflicted wounds...
Small, spry Publisher Copley, who made a fortune in public utilities, looks forward to an active quarter-century. He also looks forward to next Oct. 25, when he will celebrate his 80th birthday...
...Germany banned Munch's paintings. Recently, on his 80th birthday, the Nazi invaders of Norway tried to get local credit by holding an exhibition of his work, but he refused them. Last week, three days after his death, a memorial exhibition was opened in Stockholm. The show's walls could not help suggesting the words of the artist: "Sometime there must be an end to paintings of knitting women and reading men. I shall paint people who love and suffer...
James Eli Watson, oratorical, jowl-shaking Republican Senator for 17 years before 1933, was back home in Indiana for his 80th birthday, greeted the press with: "Sit down and I'll tell you 100 lies in 50 minutes." He is positively "not a candidate for office . . . just an old, broken-down number out on the scrap heap with no ambition except to help my party...
Last week the R.A.F.'s fast, light Mosquitoes gave Berlin its 80th bombing, but between Sept. 8 and Sept. 19 no heavy bombers went into Germany. Airmen attached no particular significance to this circumstance; they have had such lulls before, will have them again. But they were bound to reflect that their principal operations from Britain last week were "supporting operations"-Fortress attacks on the Germans' Atlantic port of Nantes, on the submarine base at La Pallice, on factories near Paris which supply engines to the Luftwaffe on all fronts; R.A.F. night attacks on the great Dunlop tire...