Word: alsatian
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...farmhouses from the Pennine Hills to the seven streams that flow eastward to the Humber, the herders celebrated the end of a ten-day nightmare. But at Leyburn Police Headquarters none liked to look too closely at the body of the huge, tawny Alsatian sheepdog that had wrought the havoc; for in that section of Yorkshire sheep are a livelihood, and no Dalesman cares to admit that his dog has gotten the taste for sheep's blood...
Mastery without Talent. Albert Schweitzer, an Alsatian, was the son and grandson of schoolteachers and Evangelical ministers. At nine he played the organ in church, later studied in Paris under the great organist Charles Marie Widor. By his teens he had developed a fascination for "mastering subjects for which I had no special talent," and frequently read the clock around...
...Polite, Alsatian-born Dr. Hans A. Bethe, professor of theoretical physics at Cornell, worked three years on the atomic bomb. Last week he brought the Senate's Atomic Energy Committee a relieving note of cheer...
...mountain road out of the Alsatian village of Climbach was crawling with German supply trucks. Climbach had to be taken; a task force of infantrymen, tanks and tank destroyers of the 103rd Division set out to do the job. In a scout car, jouncing along at the head of the little column, was Lieut. Charles Thomas, a Negro company commander in the Negro 614th Tank Destroyer Battalion...
...attacked the Colmar pocket on the south, last week began to squeeze it on both sides. With Tassigny's French First Army was a crack U.S. infantry division, which got bruised one day in a fight against Panther tanks. One doughfoot who hid in a rain barrel saw Alsatian villagers pointing out U.S.-held houses to the Germans. When he got back and told the story, Thunderbolts and artillery reduced the village to rubble. Later the Yanks retook...