Word: brest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...craggy coast of Brittany juts into the Atlantic like the head of a hungry snapping turtle. Ragged with reefs and studded with wind-worn, prehistoric monuments, it is one of France's poorest but most picturesque regions. Even the names are striking: Brest and Quimper, Kernascléden and Morbihan-echoes of the Celtic invasion from Wales that settled the giant peninsula about 500 A.D. Life is hard and poor, and even the tourist trade is seasonal at best, for tourists come only when the wet, ragged winds from the Channel let up in the summer, and a pale...
...post in which he so relentlessly pressed the fight against Communist guerrillas, scorning all talk of negotiation in Paris, that he was recalled in 1947, whereupon he quit public life in disgust and returned to his monk's habit; of a heart attack; in a monastery near Brest, France...
Governor of Martinique, and soon decamped with him for France. There, to strengthen her position, she contrived a marriage between Beauharnais's son Alexander and her niece, Josephine, just turned 16. When Alexander met his bride on her arrival at Brest, he wrote cautiously to his father: "Mademoiselle will perhaps seem less pretty to you than you expect." She was, in fact, an awkward, unschooled girl from the colonies. Alexander tried, without success, to teach his wife to spell and to tutor her in history, but soon lost interest and was living away from home by the time their...
...Rufus Wayne Youngblood was not quite as young as Reader Picha remembers, but almost. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps at the age of 17 in 1941, telling the Air Corps that he was 18. As an aerial engineer he flew combat missions in B-17s over Brest, Romilly and Saint-Na-zaire, earning a Purple Heart and an Air Medal. He was discharged as a second lieutenant in 1945 at the-finally admitted...
...misconceptions, contradictions, misinformation and blunders with which Britain and her allies approached this crucial period in Russian history. British policy was based on fundamental misconceptions from start to finish. Most blatant was the assumption that the Bolsheviks would profit from a renewed war effort: the resting period provided by Brest-Litovsk was vital to the consolidation of the Soviet regime and Lenin and Trotsky had no desire to involve themselves with one of the "bourgeois" alliances...