Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France, in a spontaneous burst of struggle and liberation, a nation had been reborn. In Paris last week a much more difficult feat of political obstetrics was taking place-a government for the reborn nation was trying to come to life. Charles de Gaulle had settled down in the old War Ministry on the rue St. Dominique...
...Russian ballet dancer, Serge Lifar, whom some critics regard as the inheritor of the pink tights of the great Vaslav Nijinsky. Lifar had not only spent the days of German occupation as the toast of the Wehrmacht's more sybaritic officer set; he crowed publicly over each new feat of German arms. Up to last week, the F.F.I, had been unable to find Serge Lifar. He was in hiding, periodically telephoning his friends...
...first book about the invasion of Normandy, from D-day to the fall of Cherbourg, represents a remarkable publishing feat. Largely written in France, it was assembled and refurbished during a fortnight in London, dispatched to the publishers piecemeal. The last chapters reached the U.S. by courier less than three weeks before publication...
...found German pontoon bridges mending some of the gaps, smoke pots placed for protection. Wind waved the smoke aside. At the end of 72 hours, 28 bridges (rail and pontoon) were out. Said Uncle Joe, one of the war's great tactical air-forcemen: "This is an outstanding feat in the history of aerial warfare...
...Fritchey feat, the Press won a 1937 Pulitzer citation for public service...