Word: bristols
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord Provost of Glasgow protested that Hess brought Glasgow so much publicity that his presence there might well bring on an air raid. > In Rio de Janeiro a Swiss druggist named Rudolf Hess grabbed an airliner to avoid importunate newsmen and photographers. > Mrs. Emma Hess Upchurch of Bristol, Va., a sister-in-law, was proud that her boy Gustave Adolf Hess Jr. is a U.S. Army volunteer. > Several U.S. organizations tried to forward firearms to fork-wielding Farmer David McLean. > In Cairo, Hess's old nurse was sure he was not crazy. > One newspaper report leered that Hess...
...King George VI walked down a line of stalwart young pilots, standing at attention with glasses of sherry in their hands. After felicitations and a fighter's simple supper, the King was taken out on the field, where he examined Britain's best night-fighting planes, the Bristol Beau and the Douglas DB7 Havoc-bigger ships than the day fighters. They are two-seaters so that the pilot can concentrate on navigation, the gunner on spotting and shooting; twin-engined so that they would not be blinded by propeller reflection or by fiery exhausts right in front...
...gaudiest robe of the lot-a dark gown almost armored with gold braid-draped awkwardly on the huge round shoulders of the Chancellor of Bristol University. Winston Churchill. Near him, in the scarlet and salmon pink gowns of doctors of law, stood Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies of Australia and U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant...
...Linden proud establishments like the State Opera and Prussian State Library were fired. It was a week in which the Germans began to talk again, loudly and confidently, of invading the British Isles. It was also a week in which Coventry had been blasted "worse than Coventry," and now Bristol...
Ambassador Winant and Prime Minister Menzies had just spoken in simple, moving terms. John Winant: "I will always think first of the patience, character and courage of the people of Bristol." Robert Menzies: "This is humanity's war." Winston Churchill grimly declared: "The traditions which have come down to us throughout the centuries . . . will enable us most surely at this moment, this turning point in the history of the world, to bear our part. . . ." Where the next hard blow would fall-perhaps on Eire, where preparations were considered for the evacuation of Dublin, perhaps on Greenland, which...