Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordered the O.S.S. men shot. They wore no insignia, had turned their field jackets inside out. A Führerbefehl (order from Hitler) had decreed death for captured commandos and saboteurs. When junior officers protested, he countermanded his order, asked higher-ups what to do. Field Marshal General Albert Kesselring's headquarters said shoot the captives; after that, he had no alternative...
Aware that they were setting a momentous precedent (see INTERNATIONAL), the five U.S. officers serving as commissioners mulled the question of responsibility. But if they forgave Dostler for following orders, the only war criminal left would be Hitler. When they had decided, grave-faced Corporal Albert Hirschman of the O.S.S. translated the verdict for impassive General Dostler: "To be shot to death by musketry...
...fought so ardently for his conception of freedom, Frank Graham has attracted to Chapel Hill one of the sprightliest, ablest faculties in the U.S., men of the caliber of Sociologist Howard Odum, Mathematician and Biographer Archibald Henderson, Playwright Paul Green. And Dr. Frank has nourished such educational plants as Albert Coates's Institute of Government (which each year trains scores of North Carolina sheriffs, tax collectors, and small fry officials); the Playmakers and the Department of Dramatic Art; a drama school rivaling Yale's and Carnegie Tech's; an outstanding university press; and Howard Odum...
Terrified, Josie-Lee went to the other woman again, to plead for her husband. Said the girl: "He's anybody's prey. If I get him, I'll keep him." As stonily, Albert said: "I've worked all my life. It's time I was enjoying myself." He asked Josie-Lee to divorce him. At last she agreed. Last week she was back on the farm with the children. Albert had married the girl, lost his war job, headed somewhere away from Tennessee...
Young and Middle-Aged. With variations major and minor, the same bathetic, woeful, touching story was being enacted last week by thousands of other U.S. husbands & wives. Like Albert and Josie-Lee, many were over 30, many had children, most had been happy before the war. But they had not withstood loneliness or temptation or big money, or the contagious recklessness of the times...