Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rain drenched clothes and cigarets, and the mud stalled traffic, the G.I.s cursed the engineers. The engineers were too busy to curse back. Under sodden skies by day, under arc lights by night, soaked night & day, with mud in their hair and eyes, the engineers worked on two main jobs: roads and airfields...
...donated by her followers, she built the huge (5,300 seats) Angelus Temple, provided it with crystal doors, a silver band, a $25,000 radio station. In the Temple her talents found full scope. Clad in white flowing robes, her hair burnished gold in the glare of the arc lights, a Bible under one arm and a bunch of red roses in the other, she exhorted the Angelenos to come and be saved...
Since barter has its limitations, more often the G.I.s sell for cash. Informal G.I. markets have sprung up around the Arc de Triomphe, in the Place Pigalle, under the Eiffel Tower, in bistros, restaurants, around jeeps pausing in traffic jams. These sales give soldiers enough money to buy at Paris prices...
...minutes past 3 on the afternoon of Saturday, August 26, General de Gaulle bent his tall, awkward body below the Arc de Triomphe and laid on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier two bunches of flame-colored gladioli. The flame at the tomb still burned. De Gaulle laid a Cross of Lorraine, fashioned of white roses, beside the gladioli, and stood at attention while a bugler sounded Aux Marts (taps...
...ruling all France. On the day he entered Paris, Washington and London at long last had come to an agreement with his self-styled Provisional Government. Next day, General Ike Eisenhower gave at least de facto blessing. The Supreme Allied Commander appeared without public notice, drove to the Arc de Triomphe, waved and smiled his Kansas smile. The General had invited De Gaulle to accompany him, but other duties prevented. But with Ike Eisenhower were De Gaulle's seconds in command: Generals Koenig and Leclerc. Again Paris roared its acclaim. There was no sniping. Said De Gaulle...