Word: houres
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hell of a lot of difference, of course, for it meant that the bloodiest war Europe had ever known was finished. "In all our long history, we have never seen a greater day than this," Winston Churchill told the crowds in Parliament Square. "This is a solemn but glorious hour," said President Harry Truman. "We join in offering our thanks to the Providence which has guided and sustained us through the dark days of adversity...
...groom swore that they were Aryans. Wagner signed the marriage certificate, glanced at his watch, saw that it was just after midnight and changed the date from April 28 to April 29. Then they all had champagne and liverwurst. As Wagner dutifully returned to his post half an hour later, he was killed by Soviet gunfire...
...immediately began broadcasting the news. On the floor of the U.N. conference, a Chilean delegate waved an extra edition of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin with the screaming headline NAZIS QUIT. The delegates burst into applause. Cheering crowds gathered in the streets of New York City and Chicago. An hour and a half later, President Truman called in reporters and announced that the story was untrue...
...their differences over last month's slaying of Major Arthur D. Nicholson Jr. by a Soviet soldier. The officer was on duty in East Germany as part of the agreement between Washington and Moscow that each side can maintain military observers in the two Germanys. Out of the four-hour meeting, arranged by the State Department, came no apology and no promise of compensation by the Soviets, only that these issues would be referred to a "higher authority" in Moscow. But the Soviets did offer one important concession: a ban on the "use of force or weapons" against American liaison...
...gambling nearly everything he was making from WTBS, Turner launched the 24-hour Cable News Network, a brazen challenge to the three major TV-news organizations. During the first few years, CNN lost about $50 million annually and seemed unlikely to survive. Turner persevered, though, and today CNN is nearly in the black. He has aimed to join forces with CBS since 1981, when he approached the network about taking over Turner Broadcasting. Rejected then and several times since, Turner finally decided to try to take over...