Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might yet turn out that his head-on tactics would bring the warring services together where James Forrestal's patient indecision had failed. But an end to service rivalries could never be reached by decree alone. With the Navy in open revolt last week, it was plainer than ever that real unification was also a state of mind: the services had to be convinced, not just told. By that definition, Louis Johnson's job had just begun...
...couple were vague about their future plans. A honeymoon? Well-Aly volunteered that he hoped to attend the Derby at Epsom Downs on June 4. Rita planned to start work on a new film by the end of the year. Back at the party, Rita sank down next to the old Aga Khan. "Too much caviar, Rita," he murmured, "too much caviar." International News Service's starry-eyed Louella Parsons heaved a final sigh. The groom, she reported, "wearying but still buoyant, dropped on one knee and, with old-world gallantry, kissed her [Rita's] slipper...
...Army is getting ready to pull out of Korea by the end of next month. The 7,500 occupation troops will be transferred to Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. Withdrawal raises the uneasy question of South Korea's future; its U.S.-sponsored government faces a strong Communist regime which the Red army left behind when it withdrew last December from the area north of the 38th parallel. To allay South Korean jitters, the U.S. Army is leaving a large part of its equipment, including arms, ammunitions and transports, to the young South Korean army...
...week's end, nobody had been locked up, nobody fined. As their buses banged along toward the Jail of the Lost Child, Tacuba Cemetery or Mercy Slaughterhouse, Mexicans heard as usual the consoling plunk-plunk of the minstrels' guitars, and the familiar words borne long ago by the wind that swept Mexico: // 7 am to die tomorrow, Let them kill me right away...
...illuminated parchment manuscript-the papal bull* which proclaimed 1950 a Holy Year of pilgrimage to Rome. Then, with his face almost constantly lighted by smiles, he spoke to the mauve-robed Apostolic Protonotaries assembled before him, in the most optimistic terms he had used since before war's end...