Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Greeks started it in 776 B. C. but 50 years ago the world decided to start holding Olympic games again, every leap year. 1936 was a leap year and back then in the early era of Roosevelt the last Olympic games were held. In that year Jesse Owens streaked...
Said Lieut. Van Atten: "The most surprising thing about the whole incident was the extreme belligerency of the Yugoslavs in seizing us and then the contrasting careful way they treated us before our release. Boy! They really handled us with kid gloves during our detention."
Germany's Chance. A minor street incident six years later helped convince Shirer that Germany still dreamed. Shirer, picking his way through ruined Berlin, saw two Russian soldiers arresting a mild, elderly U.S. colonel. Charges: snapping a picture of Russian MPs rounding up some black marketeers. A crowd of...
In 1925 a Freshman coach, at Pitt achieved the dubious honor of first underrating Donelli. He told the 155 pound kid from the mill town of Bridgeville. Pennsylvania that he was too small to play football. Buff got a laugh out of recalling the incident in his Newbury street office...
Cables popping into Washington told about the touchy little incident at Trieste. The top brass got a little excited. Jimmy Forrestal thought it was time to show some of the old hustle. He talked to Clark Clifford at the White House. Off went a radio to the President, who was...