Word: greats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...AMERICANS: "The British . . . have made greater efforts than any other people, and deserve credit for so doing." FOR BRITONS: "No efforts and no sacrifices, however heavy, are great enough if they leave Britain dependent on the generosity of others...
...since the great days of Itchy Guk, the famed Eskimo who was probably the most remarkable Channel swimmer of them all,* had there been such heavy human traffic in the choppy waters between Dover and Cap Gris Nez. Everyone seemed to want to swim the Channel. Last week a clothing salesman from Cuba and a Dutch housewife tried, both for the second time, and failed. Shirley May France of Massachusetts (TIME, Aug. 8) still hesitated before making the big plunge. In this crowd of fame-seekers, a short, stocky Yorkshire schoolboy named Philip Mick-man went almost unnoticed. But last...
...powerful leader of the Center (a Catholic party that was the most stable of all parties in the Weimar Republic), Adenauer was openly hostile to the Nazis from the moment they started rising to power. When Hitler was about to visit Cologne in 1933, his fanatic followers draped the great Rhine bridge with huge swastikas. Adenauer ordered his police to tear them down. Goring promptly ordered Adenauer's discharge from office and banishment from Cologne. Adenauer found asylum in a convent on an island down the Rhine...
American, British and French officials now agree with the Germans who voted for him that Adenauer is by far the best choice at this stage of the great effort to bring Germany into the free world...
Once inside the Grand-Duchy, the Mesta motorcade cruised about, unable to find the U.S. legation. At length, greeted by the squealing of several hundred well-voiced pigs at a nearby fair, Minister Mesta settled in her official residence. Even before arranging twelve photographs of her great & good friend Harry Truman, she received the press in her brown & ivory salon. "My President," she said, "thinks you are very, very, terribly important. You may be small, but we have a saying in my country that precious pearls come in small packages...