Word: di
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people was more surprised than the British, when the British Army last week opened a new assault on Madagascar. Last May British troops had landed on the island. With a little fighting and few losses they had soon taken Diégo-Suarez and territory surrounding that naval base, chief port of the big French island. The British thought then that Madagascar was safely in British hands. But they were mistaken...
...announced renewal of the assault on Madagascar did most of the public realize that Madagascar had never been under effective control of the United Nations. Britain's conquest had come to an abrupt halt after the invaders finished, mopping up scattered French resistance in the hills rimming Diégo-Suarez Bay. For 1,000 miles southward through the rest of the island Vichy-french officials had not come to terms. Last week the British really got down to taking control of Madagascar's ports, mineral wealth and agricultural resources...
...subcommittee, flying hellbent north on a rush-rush, hush-hush mission to learn the "truth" about Alaska. They were going too fast to see much, if anything, but reporters said they apparently were having a good time en route. Back from Alaska came two fighting Congressmen and Artemus L. ("Di") Gates, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air. One was a mum-mouthed Texan, Lyndon Johnson, recently returned from the South Pacific, where he was one of the President's observers with General MacArthur. The other, Warren Magnuson of Washington, talked a little. His conclusions: "The war situation...
...Lidice last week, leading Paragrapher Howard Brubaker to remark in The New Yorker: "Thus the name which Nazis thought they had extinguished will be mispronounced for all time." As most Americans cheerfully began calling it Le-deese', the Czech Consulate in Chicago gave the Official pronunciation as Li-di-tseh. In Joliet they pronounced...
That, too, was settled in the first inning, and once again by American League power. The Red-White-&-Blues had Sluggers Cecil Travis, Sam Chapman, Don Padgett, and Morrie Arnovich; but they were no match for razor-sharp batsmen like Ted Williams, Lou Boudreau, Joe Di Maggio, Rudy York. So Manager Mickey Cochrane, onetime Tiger mastermind, stepping out of comfortable retirement last spring to take over the barnstorming baseball team of the Great Lakes Naval Training Station and drafted to manage Uncle Sam's allstars, had to rely on superior pitching...