Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With two others (John Rivers of Philadelphia and Lee Diamond of New York), Schmid was lying mouse-quiet in a machine-gun nest on the bank of a sluggish river dividing the American-held beachhead from Jap territory. The long-expected attack came early in the morning. Said Schmid...
...laid Johnny aside as best as he could and started feeding it. ... The Japs kept sending groups of men, 35 to 50, charging down into the water while bullets whistled all around us. ... I could hear my teeth grind together as I swept my gunfire across group after group. . . . Diamond was working furiously when they got him in the arm. He fell across my legs. So I alternately loaded and fired...
Rivers was dead. Schmid and Diamond lay there motionless. Once a lieutenant braved the bullet barrage to give them a hypodermic; once a hospital corpsman brought water. In the full light of morning, they were helped away...
...diamond mining engineer, Painter Haucke was born in Kimberley, South Africa, in 1908. He came to the U.S. as a child, later studied psychology in New York University. He was preparing his doctor's thesis at Yale, on a teaching fellowship, when he decided to marry one of his former pupils and to abandon psychology for painting. Yale objected to both decisions. Result: Mr. and Mrs. 'Haucke rented a cottage near New Haven, lived on home-raised vegetables and $5 a week. When war came, Haucke thought he ought to take some part...
...France she enjoyed even greater triumphs. She specialized in death scenes; after 1882 she "died in at least three plays out of four." King Alfonso XII of Spain gave her a diamond brooch; Emperor...