Word: cherbourg
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...party put tough young Laurent ("Eye of Moscow") Casanova in charge of the new effort. He sent organizers to Cherbourg to call dock strikes against the first ships bearing U.S. military aid; these are due to arrive in about a month...
...Duke of Windsor undoubtedly had a bit of explaining to do at home. He had announced in Cherbourg that the Duchess of Windsor had "received several offers" of jobs. When they arrived in Manhattan aboard the Queen Elizabeth, the Duchess said to reporters who interviewed them: "I'm afraid that's just a rumor." Then, with a sidelong glance at the Duke: "I have quite a full-time job now." One of the Duke's first jobs on U.S. soil: escorting his Duchess to a New Year's Eve party at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel, where...
...Duchess of Windsor has "received several offers" of jobs, the Duke of Windsor announced in Cherbourg as they sailed for the U.S. "I know that everybody has to work today," said the Duke. "I am writing at present three articles of memoire which will be published in the United States...
Utah Beach on Dday, and it had hard fighting all the way to Cherbourg. Van Fleet was wounded, left the hospital to get back to his outfit while Bradley was on the way there to give him a medal. Bradley caught up with him, gave him the medal, and some advice: handle the next fight from a command post and stop working up forward on the firing line...
...council adjourned, to meet again at Lake Success this week. Some of its members boarded the Queen Mary at Cherbourg and promptly got stuck for twelve hours in a mudbank. That was a simile come to life-and a lot more accurate than the ones the diplomats thought...