Word: crosses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heartened an American Red Cross convention in Washington with a prediction that "America will respond" to the A.R.C.'s need for an extra $50 million to replenish its disaster fund...
Reich, there would have been no cross-Channel operation that year. It would have been sacrificed in favor of ... various desultory and haphazard operations...
...Europe's defensive shores "like jackals worrying a lion." Snorted Morison: "From most of [Churchill's] favorite targets you could not go anywhere!" Of the successful Normandy invasion in 1944: "But for the insistent,, unremitting, often rude and tactless pressure by Roosevelt, Marshall, Eisenhower and others to cross the Channel in force . . . and surge on to the heart of Hitler...
...Moss, Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn somehow escaped uninjured from a three-car pile-up on a barricade of telephone poles. All afternoon the accidents continued, but no one was hurt. Only five cars finished. Still, World Champion Juan Fangio had to push his Maserati to the limit to cross the line in 3 hr. 10 min. 12.8 sec., a scant half-minute ahead of Briton Tony Brooks's Vanwall...
Twelve Angry Men. A thriller of ideas in which the right to trial (and error) by jury is cleverly cross-examined by Scriptwriter Reginald Rose, Actor Henry Fonda (TIME. April...