Word: bon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month after the Allied landings, the Italians had quit fighting in Sicily, the Germans faced another Cap Bon, though with some hope of evacuating a remnant. In Sicily, the Axis had lost 125,000 men captured, uncounted thousands dead and wounded, uncounted hundreds of planes, tanks, trucks and guns. They had won a month's time to bolster Festung Europa; but they had surely hoped for more. The Allies had practiced amphibious invasion on a grand scale, had sealed their control of the Mediterranean. Now they stood a step from the European main...
...Bon Vivant. Benjamin was the first Jew ever offered an appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. He turned it down to become a U.S. Senator (from Louisiana). In an age of eloquence, Benjamin was eloquent too. Many of his speeches were as fancy as a beaded bag. But he could also say things that made his Senate colleagues prick up their ears. Sample: "If the object [of this bill] is to provide for friends and dependents, let us say so openly." To a Congressman his voice was "as musical as the chimes of silver bells." But Mrs. Jefferson Davis thought...
...Bon Vivant. Brooklyn-born Porter Sargent lives in the Boston suburb of Brookline, is a bit of a bon vivant (old cheese, old china), something of a poet (he has published one volume). He attributes his real education to travel rather than Harvard (he sent Porter Jr. to North Carolina's experimental Black Mountain College), but enjoyed his Harvard post-graduate research in botany, zoology, neurology. After eight years of teaching at Cambridge's proper Browne & Nichols School, he spent a decade traveling in Europe and circling the globe five times with pupils of his unique Travel School...
Died. Reginald Bathurst ("Reggie") Birch, 87, famed Victorian illustrator; in The Bronx Home for Incurables. Born in London, Bon Vivant Birch illustrated scores of magazines and books. For his drawings for Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy (which brought its author $350,000), Birch said he got $400 and two theater tickets...
...Akarit line the performance was repeated. And while the final break-through was being readied by General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander's ground forces, Coningham's airmen continued their slash-and-bomb tactics. They were still at it when the last resistance on Cap Bon finally broke down...