Word: calme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Love A Soldier" rolls along on its aimless way in the same manner as a hundred other mediocre movies. The most striking characterization is that of the street car conductor, played by Barry Fitzgerald, who remains calm through rain, shine, and traffic jams...
...western columns were reportedly those of Major General Wade H. Haislip's XV Corps, which had swung in behind the enemy to form the pockets against the Seine where Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's main force had met disaster. To set up that kill, calm, roly-poly General Haislip had managed another impossibility for Patton; he had driven his armor down from Normandy, across to LeMans, up to Alengon -300 miles-in twelve days. Haislip's corps had been the first of Patton's daggers to strike deep. Now Haislip could exploit...
...when we found him his physical condition was strong, and his mind as calm and rational as though he were sitting in a London club. He was in agony, yet in his correct Oxford accent he even apologized for taking up our time...
Ships and Bombs. D-day was Aug. 15. It began in cloudy night with a crescent moon shining fitfully through the overcast upon calm sea. Before the day was 30 minutes old the attack began with a commando landing on the Hyères Islands off Cap Bénat-where the now sunken French fleet used to take its exercise on sunny days. A few hours later more parachutists and gliders landed beyond the Monts des Maures -the Moorish Mountains-that rise between Toulon and Saint-Raphael...
...Niland, a stout, calm woman who is "Stumpy" to her four boys, signed the messenger's pad, opened the telegram. It was from Adjutant General Ulio, and it read: "The Secretary of War desires that I tender his deep sympathy to you on the loss of your son Preston...