Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field ambulance roll along the dusty road toward the 7th Infantry Division Cemetery on Okinawa. Inside lay the body of the man who had led them through the Pacific war's bloodiest battle: Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., commander of the U.S. Tenth Army. Almost on the eve of victory, he had been killed by a Japanese shell in a forward observation post (TIME, June...
...heroic days were gone: the days when the Princess Suvarov (descendant of Russia's famed general) assaulted the bank at Monte Carlo for a solid month and left it with a daily deficit; the days when German Crown Prince Wilhelm won 2,000,000 francs on the eve of World War I, in which his father and he were about to gamble away an empire; the days when gay Edward VII brought along the prim Prince of Wales (later George V) who said: "It's like a Turkish bath in there. Goodness knows how Father manages to stick...
Handsome, Massachusetts-born "Stu" Symington, Yaleman and husband of once-famed society chanteuse Eve Symington, would replace Iowa's silver-haired ex-Senator Guy M. Gillette, who had never wanted the job anyway...
...Lieut. Colonel Earl Blaik, and found a sympathetic ear. After boning, he passed his qualifying exams with 100 in math. Colonel Blaik found a Georgia Congressman who was willing to swap Woody's Congressman a current vacancy for one the following year. By this time it was the eve of Woody's 22nd birthday, when he would become too old for West Point entry. There was still no official notice of his appointment. Gambling on the chance that it had been sent direct to West Point, Woody and his father begged & borrowed gasoline from neighbors...
Died. Johannes Maarten de Moor, 49, beetle-browed Dutch jurist and maritime authority, Netherlands delegate to the United Nations War Crimes Conference; on the eve of the conference's convocation; of blood poisoning; in London...