Word: dearest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Into the U. S. poured a stream of letters and cables from U. S. ambulance drivers and nurses in France. Example: Ambulance Driver Elizabeth Adams wrote to her Providence, R. I. parents: "Dearest Family ... I have been bombed-oh God -if you knew how it felt to have a plane go over you like a dark, vicious shark and see it drop its bombs. . . . We are often machine-gunned. . . . The planes come down so close. Damn them! ... I am frightened, yes-oh God-terrified. ... I was almost crazy with fear...
...eleven miles up the Somme estuary from William's embarkation point) and Boulogne were both in the grasp of Adolf Hitler. So apparently was Calais, nearest port to the British coast (25 miles from Dover). But the attempt by Hitler to invade Britain his power dream's dearest chapter-was not expected by experts to come from these beachheads...
Novelist Maxim Gorky was a good friend of Stalin, but perhaps his dearest friends were Commissar for Heavy Industry Grigori Konstantinovich Ordjonkidze and Soviet Executive, Committee Secretary Avel Yenukidze. Ordjonkidze died "of a heart attack," Yenukidze before a firing squad. Defense Commissar Voroshilov has enjoyed the master's friendship and lived longer than anybody. Best pal of late years is said to be Leningrad Party Boss Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, regarded as Stalin's heir. Last week rumors flew thick & fast that Comrade Zhdanov was on the skids. His birthday testimonial to Stalin failed to see the light...