Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four years and six months have passed since King George VI told his people: "We are at war. . . . We can only do the right as we see the right." Three years and nine months have passed since the King's First Minister, Winston Churchill, arose from Dunkirk's depths and immortally said: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender...
King at Work. In the trembling years of 1940 and 1941, King George spent nearly a third of his time among his people. He watched the Army recover from Dunkirk. He watched the R.A.F. hold back the Luftwaffe (he had earned an R.A.F.'s pilot rating in 1919). He joined the Navy on its prowls around Britain. He was constantly meeting the nation's housewives and munitions girls, its fighter pilots and mine layers. He even had his own personal bomb. After his office on the north side of the Palace had been blitzed, he moved across...
...eight years of serious medical art behind her. Among other things she has 1) illustrated a book on orthopedic operations for Dr. Arthur Steindler of the University of Iowa, 2) illustrated surgical and medical works for doctors at Johns Hopkins, 3) made hundreds of sketches of Dieppe and Dunkirk plastic surgery cases in Britain to illustrate a forthcoming book by Boston and Oxford's Dr. John Marquis Converse. One day last fall she got sick & tired of being always serious in her medical drawings, began her surrealistic compositions "as a sort of psychotherapy...
...spearpoint, all the desert way from El Alamein to Tunis. Son of a Hertfordshire solicitor, product of Eton and the Coldstream Guards, Sir Oliver was thrice wounded in World War I. He fought with World War II's B.E.F. in Flanders, still has a score to pay for Dunkirk...
...onetime fighter superiority over western France, and directed the air support for the Dieppe raid in August 1942. Admiral Ramsay is a tough, slit-mouthed, energetic officer who well deserves his nickname "Dynamo," pinned on him in 1940 after he had directed the almost-miraculous evacuation of Dunkirk (code name for which was "Operation Dynamo...