Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important arm of the Council is to be its "Military Staff Committee"-in effect, the world organization's General Staff. On this body, only the Big Five arc represented (by their respective Chiefs...
...Arc of Flame. Then there was the hellish vortex of battle-the high-pitched screeches and sharp bursts of shells, the awful concussions, the crunching torture of the earth itself. The Russian tanks passed on and over...
...G.I.s, a wintry, curfewed Paris seemed much gayer last week: up near the Arc de Triomphe a Stage Door Canteen -or Cabaret des Troupes Alliées-had opened and was going full blast. Inside a day or two, in fact, it was frantically yelling for more hostesses, and the orchestra, plagued by boys who wanted to dance every second, was already dying on its derri...
...second threat grew. The old port of Stettin, guarding Berlin's flanks, was crumbling under Russian gunfire and bombs from Allied air fleets, operating in support of the Russian armies. Some 25 Red divisions, backed by four tank and one cavalry corps, had drawn a 50-mile arc around the bays and narrows of the Stettiner Haff and Dammscher See, the outer and inner harbors...
...vaporous breath appeared a vendeuse, rubbing her hands, the national gesture of this winter. Madame wished to see a dress? The one with the elbow sleeves and the deep V-neck? But certainly, if Madame could bear to try it on. Yes? Ah, Madame was a real Joan of Arc ! The vendeuse led the way to a dressing room. Heroically Madame took off her coat, then her extra lining, then, with thin-lipped determination, her dress. The vendeuse clucked her admiration of such courage. Deftly she inserted Madame into the model of the new gown. Expertly she arranged mirrors...