Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even wartime shortages of materials under the Nazis could hamper Paris style. Hats grew huge, vast, fantastic as imagination ran riot and millinery grew scarce. Now a common sight in Paris streets are poke bonnets of brilliant-colored straws, some 18 inches tall, and veil-draped hats reminiscent of the voluminous headgear worn by turn-of-the-century motorists. Earrings are enormous and unorthodox. Some, as big as oranges, dangle from ear to shoulder. Shoes, because leather was scarce, are wooden-soled with wedge heels three inches high...
...Dick Wakefield. Pitcher Trout himself was the sluggingest pitcher in the League, with five home runs to his credit. But if hitting would do it, the Red Sox were in. The club led the League in batting, boasted the three top individual averages. One of the three, however, was brilliant Second Baseman Bobby Doerr, who played his last game on Labor Day before reporting for Army induction. A month before, Red Sox pitching had suffered a body blow when the Navy claimed 18-game winner Tex Hughson. Although $65,000 had been promptly peeled off Owner Tom Yawkey...
...miles of its length; 55,000 to 60,000 Japanese troops had been trapped in pockets along the north coast. But for U.S. and Australian troops a grueling, malarial campaign which began two years ago (when the Japs almost took Port Moresby) had ended in a brilliant victory. Its final phase was all but bloodless...
...make this week a momentous one in the history of this war - a brilliant and fruitful week for us, a fateful one for the ambitions of the Nazi tyrants...
Harold J. Laski, Britain's brilliant, bucktoothed, left-wing economist, plunged five flights without getting out of bed when a Nazi robomb wrecked his hotel. The bed landed upright. Occupant Laski: unhurt...