Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Team, New Ways. A whole structure of personal diplomacy fell apart in Washington. Harry Hopkins had superseded accredited ambassadors, spoken the President's mind more authoritatively than did the Secretary of State. At the moment of Roosevelt's death, his own men were abroad on the world business of the U.S. -Ed Flynn on Vatican-Kremlin understanding, Judge Samuel Rosenman and Bernard Baruch on Europe's torn economy. Pat Hurley, the accredited Ambassador to China, had just left London for Moscow and Chungking on a personal mission for the President. In Rome the President's representative...
...into a Nazi rout. The street battles of seven days & nights were the last phases of a strategic victory that had been won in four weeks of battles along the roads from Budapest. In those battles the Germans had desperately spent armor and manpower. The Red Army had chopped apart eleven armored divisions...
...Professor Shapley has noticed that spiral galaxies have many star clusters and star clouds - a sign of youth, not age. A star cluster, he observed, is unstable. As it rotates, its stars, revolving at various speeds around the cluster's nucleus, are torn apart by "shearing forces" which break up the cluster and disperse the stars evenly through the galaxy...
...western Allied armies took 189,611 prisoners; in all their battles in World War I the Americans had taken less than one-third of that total. In those six days at least 25,000 Germans had been killed or wounded. These were the casualties of a Wehrmacht falling swiftly apart...
...confused with her authoress cousin, Princess Marthe Bibesco (Worlds Apart...