Word: capes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Troops of the U.S. Sixth Army who landed at Arawe Dec. 15 fought their way at last around the horn's tip to join forces with Marines who were hacking a way from their beachhead at Cape Gloucester...
...youth, when he attended intellectual gatherings with Paul Gauguin, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Paul Valery and Stephane Mallarme, Gide wore a romantic cape, but always carried a Bible in his pocket. His greatest gaffe was made when as a publisher's reader he turned down the first volume of Marcel Proust's masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past...
...German troops below Rome the ill wind was a blessing, completely canceling out superior Allied air power, offering a priceless opportunity to crack the beleaguered Fifth Army beachhead on Cape Anzio...
...Fine Points. Few of the U.S. citizens, except established residents in Mexico, understand the fine points of the spectacle. In the first scene the peones (matador's helpers) drag their capes before the newly entered bull and flee behind the barrier as he charges. Having studied the bull's style of charging, the matador plays him with a cape, with slow, graceful passes, finally "fixes" the bull -brings him up short with an abrupt pass which ends the scene...
Correspondents who saw the attack and later operations at Cape Gloucester and Saidor were allowed to report last week that the rockets burst in a spray of raking death and spread like burning balls, scorching large areas along the beaches. At Saidor the entire landing area was bathed in flames before the troops piled ashore. Admiring Marines promptly nicknamed the skipping, hell-raising rocket shells "Daisy Cutters...