Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Round-the-clock preoccupation with Cologne (submarine engines and parts), Wilhelmshaven, St. Nazaire and Brest (U-boat bases) bore out reports that one major Casablanca decision was to interrupt or abandon indiscriminate bombing of industrial targets. The chosen alternative: concentrate on submarine building centers and ports, thus easing the U-boat strain from United Nations supply lines...
...forces had to abandon Gafsa, Fériana and Sbeïtla, swinging their whole line north and westward to escape annihilation. General George S. Patton's soa-in-law, Lieut. Colonel Johnny Waters, led one armored force to Djebel Lessoude, rescued isolated infantrymen from destruction. By midweek thousands of Allied vehicles were rolling west over sand hills and cactus patches-trucks, tanks, jeeps, two-wheeled carts, the jackass baggage trains of tired French Zouaves and Senegalese...
...Diego the most marked difference detween popular brands of World Wars I and II is the tendency to abandon women, lean instead towards insignia such as the tin-helmeted bulldogs symbolic of the Marine Corps. A grinning death's head with an aviator's flight helmet surmounted by a black cat is popular among service flyers. In San Francisco last week sailors were still asking for Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, but social-security numbers are more popular...
...Moulin Rouge, to the booming of a spirited orchestra, France's bons vivants of the last century watched platoons of girls abandon themselves to the high kicking dance which offered teasing flashes of white, gartered thighs between black silk stockings and foaming whirlpools of petticoats. There, too, at a table always reserved for him, sat dwarfed, aristocratic, dipsomaniac Toulouse-Lautrec, watching, sketching, sipping...
After an unsuccessful trip to Madrid-she was still in her 305-Avril decided to retire. She married a respectable "protector," one Maurice Biais (who died in 1926), and withdrew to a quiet life in a Paris suburb. In 1933, almost destitute, widowed Jane was obliged to abandon her house, enter a Paris home for the aged. Only once again did the world hear of her. That was on May 31, 1935, when 67-year-old Avril emerged to dance once more at a Toulouse-Lautrec ball. Wrote the old lady in 1937: "In this retreat I have nothing...