Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invaded Guadalcanal, New Britain, Peleliu and suffered its worst casualties at bloody Okinawa. Few if any veterans of those grisly days were still on hand, but the new men were the same kind of businesslike marines. Under Rockey and grey-haired, peppery Major General Dewitt Peck, who commanded the famous 4th Marines at Shanghai before the war, they cleaned up and settled down...
Professor Rand taught courses dealing with every phase of Latin--classical literature, philosophy of the middle ages, and even paleography. His great research in the field of paleography (ancient scripts) brought a new light to the reforms of the Carolingian Renaissance and his famous book on the writings of St. Martin of Tours still stands as the definitive work on the great French monk...
...Raiders. He stormed ashore with them on Makin Island, killed one Jap with his rifle butt in hand-to-hand combat. The Raiders went on to Guadalcanal and there, during Carlson's famous 30-day patrol behind enemy lines, among other feats Smith knocked out two machine-gun nests and choked one Jap to death. Willing to volunteer for anything, he served a tour as an aerial gunner ("I wasn't doing anything at the time") and shot down two planes...
...some trickery that would postpone the Dec. 2 presidential elections and justify his staying in power. The tip-off came when Getulio made his notorious brother Benjamin ("Beijo"-the kiss) chief of the powerful Rio police. That meant violence. For natty little Beijo was even more famous for flourishing his gun in nightclubs than for kissing chorus girls...
...Charles Dickens' Pickwick Papers. "The most famous of all lawsuits in fiction is Bardell v. Pickwick for breach of promise of marriage. . . . Don't be discouraged by the dull opening chapter...