Word: harvests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back in the Ruhr basin. There last week the last cohesive resistance died; Dusseldorf fell. The bag of prisoners was astonishing: more than 317,000. There was no complete count of the enemy dead; the total would probably be more than 25.000. Thus the Ruhr had yielded a greater harvest of annihilation than the Russians' tide-turning triumph at Stalingrad, with its total of 330,000 killed and captured...
Sirs: Unfortunately I didn't see Random Harvest, so I do not know whether Greer Garson is bowlegged. Since the picture published in TIME (March 19) is a side pose of her legs, I don't think it offers sufficient proof. Would appreciate TIME'S publishing another picture of Miss Garson. CÉCILE BOISCLAIR Manchester...
...white opium poppies burst into bloom last week in the barren mountains of Northwest Mexico, setting the stage for melodrama. Troops rode through the hidden valleys, determined to stop the opium harvest. But the contraband harvesters, brown farmers and shepherds, bent on sharing the highest dope prices in history from over the border, eluded the soldiers...
...prayer; it was printed on thousands of small cards with Patton's Christmas greeting on the reverse side. On the fifth day of rain and Rundstedt it was distributed to the troops. On the sixth day the sun shone, and the Third proceeded to its warlike harvest...
Minister Mendès-France skipped lightly over certain qualifying facts: Marseilles' tonnage is mostly for Allied military use; for almost two years before the 1946 harvest is in, the nation will have to import its bread. But France, tired of endless greys, welcomed the first rosy hues...