Word: d-day
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...hours before D-Day...
...Michael Dukakis. I imagined him watching in his den in Massachusetts, wearing that helmet he wore in the unfortunate picture of him peering out of a tank during the 1988 campaign. Presumably, he wears it on debate nights, the way some veterans get out their old Eisenhower jackets on D-day anniversaries. He's thinking, as he often does during presidential debates, what he should have said when Bernard Shaw asked him how he'd feel about punishment if someone raped his wife...
DIED. IRVING KRICK, 89, meteorologist who helped forecast the crucial weather conditions that prompted General Eisenhower to choose June 6, 1944, as D-day for the invasion of Normandy; in Pasadena, California...
...debated the future of the world at the Harvard Council for Post-War Problems, followed the war in the Pacific, rejoiced at the D-Day landings, mourned President Roosevelt's death and celebrated V-E Day in Harvard Yard. When the atom bomb dropped, we did not agonize over its use, because it had brought us peace...
...There is no doubt that [live coverage] has the potential to preclude operational security," Dunsmore said, explaining if there had been live coverage of D-Day during world war two it might well have jeopardized the allied victory...