Word: infernale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Lucas-Green bill was aimed at transferring the machinery of soldier balloting from State hands to a Federal War Ballot Commission. The longer the Senate held the Lucas-Green bill, the more it seemed to tick like a bomb. Several members struggled courageously to extract the fuse. Finally, at...
> The Allies contended with delayed-action mines planted by the retreating enemy and set to explode any time within three weeks. In Naples these infernal contraptions blew up the post office and other buildings; hundreds of Italian civilians, dozens of Allied soldiers were killed or injured.
Big Bill Starling began as a White House Secret Service man in 1914, after flings at being a deputy sheriff and a railroad special agent. He was deeply impressed by the fact that Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley had met violent deaths. As he understood it, his job was to keep...
"In taking on this work," he wrote, "I am assuming that the Office of War Mobilization will be effective, and that it is to be the final expression of the Commander in Chief, and therefore, it will not be bypassed or sidetracked. Justice Byrnes, if not blocked, will improve things...
The Crossing. Peter told the driver to go ahead, and we rumbled up the slope and headed down the other side toward the Wadi Zigzau. Abruptly we came to the brink. Across the wadi machine guns were dueling with unexampled ferocity. Below, between two banks, perhaps 50 yards across, glinted...