Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wings. In 1939 he went into the Air Corps plans division, where General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz was his "boss; was awarded the DSM three years later for his work on World War II air plans; became a brigadier general. In 1943, appointed Chief of Staff of the Northwest African Strategic Air Forces, won the DFC and Silver Star for combat missions over the Mediterranean; finally was grounded by Spaatz, who had just been grounded by Eisenhower. In 1943, went to Moscow as Chief of the U.S. Air Mission, tried to make the Russians understand the demands of strategic warfare...
...were rumors that would not be downed of rebellion and civil war. "The time has come," wrote an Orange Free State Boer to his local newspaper, "when all burghers should be armed . . . with a rifle and a thousand rounds of ammunition. Who knows what lies ahead?" A German South African who had fled from Hitler thought he knew...
...African Queen. A prissy old maid (Katharine Hepburn) and a gin-swilling skipper (Humphrey Bogart) triumph over jungle heat, hardship and the hangman's noose in John Huston's Technicolored version of C. S. Forester's adventure yarn (TIME...
...Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute reported another small advance in the battle against cancer: a rare and harmless African nerve virus called Egypt Virus 101, which will attack and eat away cancerous tissue in humans...
...African Queen. A prissy old maid (Katharine Hepburn) and a . gin-swilling skipper (Humphrey Bogart) triumph over jungle heat, hardship and the hangman's noose in John Huston's Technicolored version of C. S. Forester's adventure yarn (TIME...