Word: bitlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well, well, well, it just shows you what misapprehensions people can labor under. I (and several million others) imagined that General Montgomery, the British Army and Air Force (not to mention the Polish and French) had quite a bit to do with knocking out the Afrika Korps, and clearing the Germans out of France and Sicily...
...Hills last week, the Aussies took the doubles (with Bromwich and 29-year-old Billy Sidwell as heroes), but the U.S.'s Ted Schroeder and Pancho Gonzales trod the challengers down under in the singles to keep the cup, 4-1. Australia's consolation: it was a bit better than last year...
Only a few British Laborites found a grain of comfort in what they heard from the U.S. They thought that there was political capital to be made from the crisis, even suggested the possibility of a quick general election this November. Explained one Labor M.P.: "A bit of American stonewalling, and we would go to the country with a dramatic clarion call to rally round retrenchment and reform rather than knuckle under to the dollar...
...bony fingers strong and sure...Not only does he play such numbers [as the Paderewski Minuet in G] completely and correctly, seldom if ever missing or muffing a note, but he evidences keen insight into the composer's intent by subtle shadings of interpretation...[When] he tackled a bit of Chopin...I was downright floored. I knew he played well-but not that well...
...taken a bit of doing, but the love & romance comics had succeeded in doing the impossible: they had found a way to simplify the "I see the cat" prose long purveyed by the older pulps. Like the pulps, the comics generally pictured handsome heroes with hearts of gold, equally handsome villains with chests of gold, and beautiful heroines with obvious reasons for being led astray. The moral in all the stories was dutifully plain: justice and virtue eventually triumphed...