Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three wingless vice admirals got a fourth star: grizzled 60-year-old Richard S. Edwards, King's deputy COMINCH; shy, barrel-chested Henry K. Hewitt, 58, "Nimitz of the Mediterranean"; suave, salty Thomas C. Kinkaid, 57, boss of the Seventh Fleet and member of MacArthur's famous "K-team" (Kinkaid, Krueger and Kenney). Five rear admirals got three stars-but none of the eight was a naval aviator, and none was under 53. Only in the lower echelons did a few stars fall on airmen: on two commodores and three captains...
Fifty-odd Washington newsmen belabored the Secretary with 33 written questions, all adding up to the bitter brevity: "What the hell?" Mr. Stettinius sweated, lost his famous smile. His unspoken hope was that the San Francisco Conference would quickly consign the deal to some limbo where the mess could be conveniently forgotten...
...such shot, already made famous in newspapers, an unarmed Japanese crouches dazedly out of his hole directly in front of two Marines, starts to run away, and is slammed to earth by a bullet in a death as curt and ghastly as any ever publicly released. In still another, one of two stretcher-bearers falls shot, and the head of the wounded man bangs to the ground. It is not possible to describe the sickening jolt in the heart and stomach which these and other shots give; it is equally impossible to escape the jolt when you see them...
...from war but from the measured plans of peace. Diverted by the elaborate network of dams and canals developed early in this century by the British to irrigate parched cottonfields, the waters of the Nile have been gradually washing away the foundations of some of Egypt's most famous monuments...
...auction, and to date, in its 80 years of life, Alice has sold uncounted millions of copies. "How did it happen." asks Florence Becker Lennon, "that the Reverend Charles Dodgson, 30 years of age, lecturer on mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford . . . gave birth to one of the most famous stories of all time...