Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chief reason why the U.S. and Britain refused to open a Second Front in 1942 was their lack of assault craft to land the six divisions necessary to create an adequate diversion. The comparatively small-scale North African invasion was the best the Allies could do at the time...
...Negro has ever sung or been invited to sing a principal role in the Metropolitan Opera. Even dark-skinned roles (Otello, Aïda and her father, the Ethiopian King, the African slaves in Meyerbeer's L'Africaine) have always been sung by whites. The staid Met says that its board welcomes "all operatically competent singers." By the Met's definition, those who would not make the grade include: Tenor Roland Hayes, Baritones Paul Robeson and Todd Duncan, Soprano Dorothy Maynor and Contralto Marian Anderson-five of the best voices in the U.S. or any country...
Died. William Buehler Seabrook, 59, explorer-author who raised readers' hair and eyebrows with his adventures among Haitian voodoo worshipers and African cannibals (The Magic Island, Jungle Ways), once detailed his stay in a mental hospital where he went to be cured of alcoholism (Asylum); by his own hand (overdose of sleeping pills-see MEDICINE); in Rhinebeck...
...mother tidied up her son's room, which was still the way he had left it-pin-up girls and airplane pictures on the wall, a radio and Popular Science on the table, his civilian clothes hanging in the closet. He had been in the North African campaign, then in the Normandy invasion, the Battle of the Bulge, and is now in Germany...
General Taylor was in the thick of World War II, as artillery officer of the 82nd Airborne Division in the African, Sicilian and Italian landings, as negotiator with Marshal Badoglio behind the German lines. He got the loist command in England, jumped with the division in Normandy, led it through 73 days of combat to Nijmegen, where he was slightly wounded. In December, 1944, he was at his home in Arlington, Va., when word came of the German breakthrough in the Ardennes. He flew to France, led his division through the Battle of the Bulge...