Word: junes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minutes before taking off on his 22,370-mile global mission, President Eisenhower laid down before a TV audience of 38 million Americans a statement of national -and personal-purpose in the world to rank with his Guildhall speech in London in June 1945, Excerpts...
...When Eugene Gleason, World-Telegram reporter, goes to work on an assignment which calls for exhaustive digging, nothing halts him," glowed the New York World-Telegram and Sun last June. "Time is of no consequence: he will work 24 hours without thought of rest. Weather never daunts him . . . No one awes him." The paper, about to start a new series by Reporter Gleason, listed some of his exploits: he had discovered the cause of a fatal 1956 explosion on a Brooklyn pier (improperly stored explosives); he had uncovered skulduggery in Manhattan's slum-clearance program; he had broken...
...pattern is the same: Alanbrooke coming up with the answers almost before the problems presented themselves; then low-military-IQ types such as Eisenhower, Marshall, Bradley and Churchill stepping in to upset his foolproof traps for the enemy. Triumph begins in September 1943, ends with a diary entry in June of 1946. The book's thesis is that Alanbrooke tried to draw the Germans out to the very periphery of Fortress Europa so as to take the heat off both the Russians and the coming Allied attack on Normandy. This idea was at the heart of the Italian campaign...
Lovers in the Sunset. The prophet came to earth on June 3, 1881, in Liberty, Mo., the son of an ordained minister and professor of natural sciences at a small Baptist college, who died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land when Hubert was 16. The boy managed to finish college, got a job as a mining engineer, finally bought a promising silver mine in Rawhide, Nev. When the vein ran out, he looked around for a job, after due consideration signed on as manager of a rundown cemetery near Los Angeles. One day in 1917, as Eaton surveyed...
...book's heroine is a girl named Katherine Dunham who grew up near Chicago, as did the author, the daughter of an American Negro man and a light-skinned French Canadian woman. Albert Dunham, the sullen, tormented father, dominates the story. Ambitious and immature, he marries beautiful Fanny June Taylor, a well-to-do woman many years older than he, and for a time is able to regard himself as a man of property. But not long after Katherine is born, his wife dies, and the property is dissipated among relatives...