Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientific astrologer - counselor to the nation"; after suffering heart and kidney complications; in Hoboken, N.J. Bug-eyed, jumpy Meyer stargazed in purple robes edged with gold, got anadvance scoop on President McKinley's assassination, called President Harding's death one year too soon, picked Al Smith and Dempsey over Hoover and Tunney, predicted that by 1942 the U.S. would have a female President and a civil war between Capital and Labor...
Farther to the west Lieut. General Sir Miles C. Dempsey's heavy force of Britons inched forward. Kluge's right began to give at the great hinge below Caen just as his left had been unseated two weeks before by the Americans...
Died. Katharine Fullerton Gerould, 65, essayist and short-story writer, wife of Princeton's English Department Chairman Professor Gordon Hall Gerould; after long illness; in Princeton, NJ. A constant critic of jazz-age manners, she took time out in 1926 to cover the Dempsey-Tunney fight for Harper's Magazine...
Rommel was unquestionably preparing for such a showdown. Besides the four Panzer divisions already identified, he was reported to have at least three more in reserve. Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, commander of the Second Army, found that some prisoners were veterans from the Russian front. Their units had been moved to Caen within the last month...
...Dempsey said the enemy was in a "considerable turmoil," and that Nazi communications were "in a very sticky state" from Allied air attacks. But he added a quiet warning: the Germans had evidently massed the heaviest weight of armor ever wielded in western Europe. There was no doubt about it: the battle ahead would be an Armageddon...