Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midweek, when Aachen had been beaten into mortar-stained destruction, the German command apparently came to its decision: the battle centered on Aachen was indeed the real thing. Now quick to act, the Germans plunged into desperate attacks to break the left arm of Hodges' army. Recklessly they expended sorely needed first-rate fighting "men in futile efforts to smash the most advanced spearheads. In two days they spent more than 60 tanks, gave up the intensive battle for the next two days to gather more strength...
...blue-eyed cinemactress (Casanova Brown, Shadow of a Doubt), and her husband, Niven Busch, Hollywood writer-producer (In Old Chicago, The Westerner), were sued for $15,000 by their cook, who charged that Busch's eleven-year-old son (by a previous marriage) had shot him in the arm because his stepmother "requested the kid to take a pot shot...
Noose & Sword. Few people in the past have thought of the law-obsessed Germans as haunted by a terrorist secret society, older and more dreaded than the Sicilian Maffia. The origins of the Feme go back to the year 1200. Ostensibly an arm of the Holy Roman Empire, the Feme really stemmed from pagan traditions. Its extralegal courts were held under mystic linden trees, on open hilltops or beneath great oaks. The paraphernalia included a two-handed sword on which the members swore, and a noose of linden fibers for the victim. The sentence of its secret tribunals was always...
...bulk of the German forces had been withdrawn, they found themselves playing the role of policeman to a country on the brink of civil war - and sometimes over the brink. The Greek resistance forces wore the insignia of E.A.M. (leftwing National Liberation Front) or E.L.A.S. (E.A.M.'s fighting arm...
With irreverent hilarity, Author Smith (Low Man on a Totem Pole) tells how he became a Hollywood writer and of his adventures thereafter. Typical tale: how an enraged agent bit Louella Parsons' arm at a dinner party...