Word: bl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...four-letter word as yet unprintable), what he said should have gone something like this: "Jöst fanncie hhav'n' Jähn L. Luis com'n' oovah heeah, 'n' tell'n' ös hoo tee dee oor blödy jäbs. Ah'd see tee heem, 'Whin ye teeyek oor tü-füt-nane seams 'n' gives ös yah eet-füt seams, we might lissen...
...Waterloo, seated on his great white horse, General Cambronne watched the tide of battle. When the elite of the French army, the Old Guard, smashed itself on British bayonets and was routed; when Napoleon exclaimed, "All is lost!" and fled; and finally, when Blücher's Prussians [supposedly immobilized] appeared on the field of battle-then it was that Cambronne uttered the word...
...reminded," said a radio commentator in Russian-controlled Berlin "of the lines of the famous poem Die Glocke by Schiller: "Und neues Leben blüht aus den Ruinen" ("And from the ruins new life blossoms...
...They had a close call and were pretty shaken when they got back to our foxholes after having crawled 200 yards along a muddy ditch. One of them slumped into my hole, out of breath. I said: "A bit tough out there, huh?" "Tough," he replied, "it's bl-bl-bloody awful...
...Patton's right, Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army jumped off in an offensive which carried four miles the first day,15 at week's end. They captured Raon l'Etape and Gérardmer, controlling two of the Vosges passes, and Blâmont, a communications center 40 miles from Strasbourg...