Word: anzacs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sleep, Gentle Sleep. This was more than Scott had made on his company in recent years. New Zealand-born, Scott fought in France as an Anzac corporal, came to the U.S. and wrote a syndicated newspaper column on how to build homemade radios. In 1924, he organized his company. It flourished erratically. So did the Scott legend...
Three months ago Curtin and his good friend Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand, took a first step toward this dual goal of Pacific regionalism and stronger Empire ties. Their Canberra Agreement asserted ANZAC rights to be consulted on all Pacific dispositions. They must have moved too fast to suit President Roosevelt or old Cordell Hull; the reception in Washington was cold and silent. Though Whitehall kept very quiet, the scheme's reception in London was probably not much better...
Playing in a mild drizzle that turned the field into a mud patch, the Harvard team was able to carry the ball over their opponents' goal line but once during the game, when Dunney Smith smashed through the ANZAC defense. John Loos' kick from the 25 yard line was successful, adding two points to the three scored by Smith a minute earlier...
...Anzac Tide...
...suit of silk underwear, which he wears. His outer clothes are informal: sweater and pants. To his troops he became a familiar and spectacular sight, touring the front line in a tank, his hawk's head in a beret protruding from the turret. Sometimes he wore an Anzac's broad-brimmed field hat, on which he pinned the insignia of all the units fighting under him, including the Greeks. Occasionally he put-putted through the sky in a Fieseler Storch reconnoitering plane left behind by the Germans. His headquarters was an elaborate caravan of trucks captured...