Word: croix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broke the Hindenburg Line in the stubborn Blanc Mont sector, was in the forefront of the battle in the last days of the Meuse-Argonne offensive. The division captured 12,026 prisoners altogether (about one-fourth of all captures by U.S. forces), suffered 24,429 casualties, won 2,000 Croix de Guerres...
...rangy man with a face, according to his friends, that looks as though it was carved by a hatchet: Major General Charles W. Ryder, 50. He was a hero of World War I. As if with foresight the Republic of France then pinned the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre with palm on "Doc" Ryder...
...Bourgeois Without Honor. Georges Bernanos rode in the French Cavalry in World War I, receiving a chest wound and a Croix de Guerre. With the French dead of that war he kept up an inner dialogue during the 20 years in which the hopes they had died for-a true democracy, a true peace-came to nothing. He saw France's elite, her smart coteries and politicians, mock the victory which the common men of France had won by selflessness and discipline. What was the essential weakness of the French ruling class? Bernanos calls it a lack of honor...
...take no lessons in humanitarianism from any country," snorted Laval. But by week's end he had learned one lesson: even the once reactionary, fascist Croix de Feu (Cross of Fire) was disgusted with him. Charles Vallin, the order's vice president, withdrew his support of the Pétain-Laval "national revolution" and fled to England. With Vallin went Pierre Brossolette, Socialist editor, long active in the French underground. Once bitter political enemies, both men were mentioned in dispatches during the battle of France; now they were pledged to work side by side with General Charles...
...orneriness, is quiet, resourceful, 47-year-old Brigadier General Andrew D. Bruce, chief of the Army's new Tank Destroyer Command. The General went from a course in dairy husbandry at Texas A. & M. into border fighting and World War I, emerged with a D.S.C., Legion of Honor, Croix de Guerre with Gold Star (twice). No martinet, he picked the site of Camp Hood not only for its mud and its sweaty climate, but because he liked Cow House Creek which runs through it, providing seven fine swimming holes where parboiled tankers can cool...