Word: brest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Restelli served two years with the Army Engineers. Another high-flying rookie, the St. Louis Cardinals' hard-hitting third baseman, Eddie Kazak, was a paratrooper and combat infantryman; he was bayoneted by a Nazi soldier in hand-to-hand fighting near Brest, France ("I think I shot the Nazi, but maybe I missed," he says), and later had part of his right elbow blown off by a shell fragment. After discharge, with a plastic patch in his elbow, he changed his name from Tkaczuk to Kazak and began slugging his way up the minor-league ladder (Columbus, Ga.; Omaha...
...Ireland. This time Sir John Tovey's own flagship, King George V, backed up by the battleship Rodney, the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, cruisers and destroyers, was ready to shoot it out with her. The Bismarck was alone; Prinz Eugen had escaped, was later spotted by aircraft at Brest. Before Sir John got within range, the Bismarck had been crippled by a carrier-plane torpedo attack. It was 8:47 on the morning of the 27th before the Rodney and King George V opened up. Lamed and surrounded, the Bismarck was hit again & again. Destroyers and cruisers banged away...
...messenger for the Exposition railroad at the 1893 World's Fair. He worked on three other roads before he climbed aboard the Cotton Belt in 1916 as assistant to the president. In World War I he took time out to run the railroad yards at Brest and St. Nazaire as a lieutenant colo- nel. Back at the Cotton Belt, hardworking Railroader Green, who has a rare taste for mathematics, could soon recite the Cotton Belt's revenue figures, for any month or year, down to the last decimal. Green, who became chief executive in 1946, still works...
...power by the Communists in France would be for world strategy. The Soviet Union [would be] mistress of the European continent. . . . The Anglo-American position in Germany . . . would be encircled from the rear; the Mediterranean artery would be cut . . . while Soviet submarine and air bases would be established at Brest and St. Nazaire, at Casablanca and Dakar. . . . Now it is likely that the Soviet Union, ill recovered from the terrible blows of war . . . does not wish a test of arms in the immediate future.... It is therefore essential that the French Communists now keep and increase their strength with...
...Paris, Brest, Avignon and elsewhere there were demonstrations against the Ramadier Government. Marchers carried placards which said: "Ramadier-Demission-Resign, Ramadier". Some of the demonstrations ended in scuffles with the police. Some appeared to be led by Communists of the French General Confederation of Labor. The Communist Central Committee charged Ramadier with "practising De Gaulle's politics without De Gaulle," and called for a left coalition to beat De Gaulle's French People's Rally in the October elections...