Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asia. Combining about 522,000,000 people in about 42 sovereign states, it is the only area of the planet where "the facts of international life conform with the spirit of the Atlantic Charter." The Atlantic is the crucial area of U.S. fate...
...World War I he rose to lieutenant colonel and won the D.S.C. World War II brought him rapid promotion and com mand of a division in France. The Germans chased him out at Dunkirk. After the escape of the B.E.F., Monty was as signed to a defense command. Fate tapped him for glory in Africa as a second-choice man, after another general, William...
Under Fascism, money could buy almost anything, even a man's life. Someone spent millions trying to save Ciano. He almost escaped death. But there was treachery within treachery and behind it the implacable figure of Benito Mussolini, who sealed his son-in-law's fate...
Died. Andre Dedekam, 64, first secretary of the Norwegian Embassy, and his wife, Louise, 69; by their own hands (gas and an overdose of sleeping pills); in Washington. Advancing age and a growing despondency over the fate of Norway were too much "for a very weary couple, very much attached, and very, very tired...
...stops were pulled out. The robots were nicknamed "Dynamite Meteors" and "Hellhounds." The German people were solemnly told that they were falling like rain; that England's fate was sealed; that Britain had already been forced to order immediate evacuation of London. How this build-up would react on the German people when the anticlimactic truth came back was just another one of Dr. Goebbels' problems of the close future...