Word: cairo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Homecoming. That morning the President had returned to Washington from Cairo and Teheran. Tanned and refreshed, he came back dressed in the most informal attire he has yet worn in the White House-a loud blue plaid shirt, loud blue-striped necktie, tan pullover sweater, and grey sharkskin suit...
...Churchill's." President Roosevelt drove about Cairo in a special Packard, bulletproofed with sheets of glass that weighed 90 lb. He called it "my county jail." His driver was Master Sergeant Harold A. Crotta, of Butler, N.J., who proudly showed correspondents a little pile of cigar ash on the running board. Said Sergeant Crotta: "Yep. It's Churchill...
Each Sunday in the London Express, Columnist Nathaniel Gubbins writes to & for the ordinary people of Britain (TIME, March 8). They understand him, laugh with and at him. On Nov. 21, before the Cairo and Teheran conferences stirred the world, Columnist Gubbins (alias Astrologer "Old Moore" Gubbins) wrote...
...third (southern) front had been synchronized with the second. Franklin Roosevelt had conferred three times with General Dwight Eisenhower, once summoned him by special plane to Cairo...
...Cairo conference is interpreted in the Southeast Asia headquarters as a definite turning point; the war against Japan will shift from a limited holding offensive to an Allied drive for victory. Grand-scale action will not follow immediately, but from here on the war against Japan has a good chance of being a coordinated, well-timed effort reaching the scale of a first-class offensive some time...