Word: anzio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know, of course, how this great story finally ended. That is told in a series of place names that have become part of the language: Bataan, Midway, Guadalcanal, Stalingrad, El Alamein, Anzio, Omaha Beach, Bastogne, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Hiroshima. In retrospect, it all seems to have a kind of inevitability, and yet there lingers over each battlefield a faint question. What if rains in Poland had mired the German tanks in mud? What if the French army had then attacked? What...
...disease having recurred, or some terrible complication setting in, or worse, that you are dying." Hope and encouragement can, on the other hand, make pain seem less than it is. During World War II, pioneer Pain Researcher Henry Beecher found that soldiers wounded during the bloody battle at Anzio needed far less morphine than did civilians with similar wounds. The presumed reason, now known as the "Anzio effect," was that for civilians the wounds were a source of anxiety; for soldiers they meant going home...
...worms and chronic hunger." Shoeless looters roaming city streets have panicked retailers. All last week, heavy looting took place in Rio de Janeiro suburbs. In one wild afternoon, a mob of 400 sacked four grocery stores in the area, ripping down steel gratings and smashing windows. Says Security Guard Anzio Gomes Monteiro: "They seemed crazed, wanting to break everything, and said they were hungry and thirsty...
Vessey, whom Reagan called "a soldier's soldier," was a 21-year-old sergeant when he won a battlefield commission for his heroics on the Anzio beachhead in Italy in 1944. Described by colleagues as "cool," "articulate," "meticulous" and possessing "a fantastic memory," he was executive officer of the 25th Infantry Division Artillery during combat in Viet Nam. "It's good to have a guy in there who has been shot at," said one officer in praise of Vessey's selection. Instead of pouting over the snub from Carter, Vessey has served loyally as Army Vice Chief...
...same time in Washington, F.D.R., weary and wasting, cannot understand why Jews are making such impassioned efforts to have him halt the Holocaust. "Always as if no one else were suffering," sighs the President. "What about the French? What about the Chinese? What about our own boys at Anzio and Midway...