Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large, buckram-bound volume was published last month by the Department of the Army. The book has illustrations-photographs of 281 men. Most of the faces are young, most of them look as familiar as the boy up the street. Their names read like the telephone directory in any U.S. town-Adams, Anderson . . . Hall-,man, Hamilton . . . Kisters, Knappen-berger . . . Soderman, Specker . . . Zeam-er, Zussman. Photographs of eleven were "not available." Few of these men are famous; all of them are heroes. The 292 men memorialized in the book are the Army's Medal of Honor winners in World...
...tried hard in Berlin to make a go of it with Marshal Zhukov. The Marshal, he found, was merely a high-ranking Kremlin mouthpiece without authority, though Stalin himself said to Ike: "There is no sense in sending a delegate somewhere if he is merely to be an errand boy. He must have authority to act." Ike soon learned that the East-West ideological differences were irreconcilable, that adequate military defense would provide the only real security...
...guilty of careless or drunken hunting. Besides this year's high toll, Feast had another good reason: three years ago his 19-year-old son lost an eye in a field accident. Said Feast: "He was hunting with an expert, yet [the expert] got two pheasants and my boy with one shot...
...gentlemen" and were just closing when the long vigil at the palace gates was at last rewarded. At 10:10 p.m., from out of the palace bustled a young, blue-clad page. He whispered a word to the bobby at the gate. The bobby nodded. "It's a boy," he announced solemnly, then, throwing his chest out and his head full back, he shouted for all to hear; "A Prince has been born...
...From the time the news of his impending birth had first been made public (TIME, March 15), a wave of sentiment, curling into sentimentality, had traveled across the English-speaking world. Early last week an impressionable housewife of Elizabeth, N.J. dreamed that Britain's Elizabeth had had a boy, and woke her husband and three children in the dead of night to tell them about it. When the news reached Australia, electric carillons pealed in Sydney and Melbourne. Next morning, in London, the bells of St. Paul's, Westminster and many another church rang out in clangorous rejoicing...