Word: frugalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...European Theater of Operations the U.S. Army has bestowed 89,477 medals-82,280 of them in the Eighth Air Force. Altogether, in all theaters, the U.S. Army has passed out approximately 175,000 medals in World War II. The U.S. Navy, more frugal with its awards (and with about one-third the Army's personnel...
Food. The average German's diet is still sufficient but extremely frugal. Lack of stores and salesclerks makes shopping ever more difficult. Housewives and workers (many are both) are urged to trudge twice to the shops, leaving their orders (written, of course, on Government-prescribed forms) in the morning, fetching parcels in the evening...
...Strong in character: "He is affable but he cannot be made to do what he doesn't want and he may be killed, but may not be humiliated. He is simple and frugal in his living, and his faults or mistakes may be gently explained but not abruptly pointed out to his face...
...Frenchman and German. In Milan, in 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte had crowned himself with the iron crown of Lombardy. In Milan, in 1848, the Habsburg General Count Joseph Radetzky had smashed the people's barricades. But the day of Italy's Risorgimento (resurrection) came. In 1870 the poor, frugal, industrious country of Mazzini, Garibaldi and Cavour ceased to be a geographical expression, attained nationhood under Vittorio Emanuele II, Rè Galantuomo (the Honest King). It was the shame of the Savoy dynasty that Vittorio Emanuele III helped Fascismo destroy the democratic constitution his grandfather had upheld...
Reticent Man. The First's commander, Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, is a formal, frugal, unglamorous Scot who has been somewhat eclipsed for the outside public by the brilliant commanders above and around him in Tunisia, and for his own troops by his brilliant juniors within the First Army. He speaks fluent French, and his French subordinates like his Scottish mentality...