Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tallahassee's history was standing in front of Florida's steepled old state capitol. Democrat Fuller Warren, onetime farm boy from Calhoun County's peanut and sweet-potato country, was about to be inaugurated governor-belly laugh, handshake, campaign promises and all. The folks expected a good show. They...
...days last week the chances for peace in Palestine looked good. The Jews had won their immediate objective-an Egyptian offer to cease fire and talk armistice terms. They quickly accepted. But at week's end the odds in favor of peace were off again...
...officers explained that they had captured Beersheba three months before, during the last Negeb campaign. At El Arish the Israelis severely damaged three enemy airfields and captured several Egyptian Spitfires, along with Egyptian soldiers and ammunition. Said Alouf† Yigal Yadin (31), chief of military operations: "It was a good opportunity to do as much damage as possible. It is not every day that we are in Egypt. The last time was 3,400 years...
...Lake Success, only Dutch Representative J. H. van Royen had kind words for his country's action. U.N.'s Good Offices Committee, which has been trying to mediate between the Dutch and Indonesians, gloomily suggested it might as well quit. Philippine Representative Carlos P. Romulo deplored the Council's "labyrinthine self-justifications." Australia's peppery Norman Makin cried that the Security Council could not "bury its head in the sands of Lake Success." Indonesia's L. N. Palar warned: "This is only the beginning of our war of self-defense...
Daughter of a substantial family of professional soldiers, Mathilde Carre was on the loose in Paris just after the German conquest. She was young, attractive, divorced, and she found it all too easy to have a good time. An ex-captain of the Polish army got her into the Réseau Interallié, an important network of the Franco-British underground. This Pole, a handsome man named Roman Czerniawsky, had been an intelligence officer. With Mathilde's brilliant help, he was soon feeding the British war office valuable information on the German order of battle. Mathilde...