Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flag Down. Shortly after sunrise on May 14, the Union Jack flapped down from its staff over Government House, on Jerusalem's Hill of Evil Counsel. Without farewells from Jew or Arab, the British Governor General, tired-looking General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham, drove to the airport in his bullet-proof Daimler. He flew to Haifa in an R.A.F. plane. There, at 10:05 a.m., he stepped into a naval launch and was sped out to the light cruiser Euryalus in the anchorage. On the dock, a bagpiper skirled the melancholy tune of The Minstrel Boy (". . . His father...
Flag Up. A few hours after Cunningham left the docks at Haifa, 400 Jews gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum under the watchful eyes of Haganah Bren-gunners. The 13 men who would rule the new Jewish state sat down at a long table on a raised dais. Over their heads were white Zionist flags bearing two pale blue stripes and a blue Star of David. The assemblage rose to sing the Zionist anthem Hatikvah-"The ancient longing will be fulfilled, to return to the land ... of our fathers...
...Arabs were thinking less of trying to conquer the Jewish enemy than of defending their own parts of Palestine. Both sides were willing, for the moment at least, to keep Jerusalem off the list of battlefields. British High Commissioner General Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham won Arab and Jewish acceptance of a ceasefire order for the city. To back it up, the British moved in heavy tanks and guns...
...jaunty rake and something more of a sophisticate. His Iago was decidedly not one of unalloyed evil and superior intellect. The other actors gave the impression of being just a little self-conscious on the stage, and they read the poetry as if it had been written by Bill Cunningham...
...Hertfordshire, England last week, Test-Pilot John ("Catseye") Cunningham took off in a De Havilland Vampire fighter, powered with a "Ghost" jet engine. By the time he had landed, he had hung up a new airplane altitude record: 59,492 ft. (11.27 miles)-more than half a mile higher than the record (56,046 ft.) established ten years ago by Italy's Colonel Mario Pezzi. Said Catseye Cunningham: "I just flew the plane to the highest point it would go with that engine and then came down again. It took 32 minutes to go up and 18 minutes...