Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paris was sorrowfully silent that June morning in 1940. Two-thirds of its people had fled. Only a thin line of tense, motionless Parisians with brimming eyes watched German tanks, guns and troops converge on the Place de l'Etoile. When Nazis clumped around the Arc de Triomphe and past the Eternal Flame sheltered above the Unknown Soldier's tomb, then swung haughtily down the broad Champs-Elysées, France's cup ran over...
...years later, on June 12, life, even in bitter defeat, went on. In the Marine Ministry and dozens of other ancient Parisian structures Nazi vultures flapped about their task of feeding on the body of France. Nazi troops were forming ranks for their regular noontime parade from the Arc de Triomphe down the Champs-Elysées. Frenchmen impassively performed their daily routine...
...Lady. Bernadette Soubirous was born on a Jan. 7, which was the birth date also of Jeanne d'Arc. On Feb. 11, 1858, a backward, asthmatic girl of 14, she beheld, in a swine-fouled little grotto near Lourdes, a dainty, gay and ineffably dressed young lady who talked and gestured with her in the silence of her enchanted heart. During the next few weeks Bernadette saw her many times, though the lady was invisible to the increasing hundreds (Bernadette had talked) who gathered at the grotto...
Immobilized: the powerful old 22,146-ton aircraft carrier Beam; the 5,886-ton cruiser Emile Bertin; the 6,496-ton cruiser Jeanne D'Arc, at Guadeloupe; some small auxiliary craft. Most important, U.S. patrol vessels which have had to stand vigil will be freed for tasks elsewhere...
...Joan of Arc was (traditionally) a sweet-faced, lissome brunette who fired a disunited France and its weakling Dauphin to clear French soil of a 15th-Century invader...