Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end his henchmen still prowled the halls, and flowers from admirers filled the room. For the first time in years, he was able to sleep when it was dark. Though his swank stucco house in Brentwood is ringed with a wire fence, equipped with electronic gadgets to detect intruders and bathed by floodlights which he can turn on from his car two blocks away, he seldom found it convenient to go home before dawn...
...When the end came, France's surrender government refused De Lattre permission to go to Britain, where he hoped to carry on the fight. In unoccupied France, he created the first of a series of officers' training schools. In 1942, when the Nazis took over unoccupied France, he marched his troops out for battle. When his Vichy superiors sent an order to remain in barracks, he went white with anger, tore the message to shreds. "Never will I receive the Germans at my headquarters," he shouted at the terrified orderly...
...story, like so many others of the mid-20th Century, came to its end in a courtroom. But its beginnings were more auspicious. It began, more or less, on that day in 1926 when the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded jointly to French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand and German Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann. Putting aside the enmities of World War I, Briand and Stresemann had signed at Locarno a mutual security pact...
Matsumoto: "We don't want to imitate Russia. We want national independence. This cannot be obtained without Communism, because American capitalists are colonizing Japan, and we would end this...
...week's end, McHugh was being held for questioning. The U.S. Embassy was quietly looking into both the Siqueiros affair and the Zurnis death; if it decided to recommend revocation of the school's G.I. accreditation, San Miguel would be finished...