Word: fracases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Why did Patton order such a desperate undertaking? One of the prisoners at Hammelburg was Patton's son-in-law, Lieut. Colonel John K. Waters, who was badly wounded in the fracas. Patton, denying that he even knew Waters was there when he launched the operation, displayed his personal...
Responsible Army, Navy & Marine Corps officers deplored the fracas. They had learned from bitter experience that the airing of such interservice differences could do grave harm.
Himmler and Goebbels have reached a working agreement-superficially amiable -in which Goebbels is clearly subordinate. Presumably Goebbels wants to be on the winning side in case of an intraparty fracas; presumably Himmler needs Goebbels' propaganda talents. Goebbels' paper, Das Reich, is full of praise for Himmler'...
At the home of the girl's aunt (Spring Byington) there is some touching domestic business (by Miss Byington, Shirley Temple and the accomplished Tom Tully)-memorably a Christmas supper at which everybody sings O Come, All Ye Faithful. There are also moments of franker pain and shock than...
In less spectacular fashion ammunition plants were shut down all over the nation, at least one of them before a single pound of powder had been made. The cutbacks hit aluminum, magnesium, pocketed the nation here & there with jobless. And they stirred up the fracas of the year between WPBoss...