Word: knew
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...lesson. When she left school, she turned down a Hollywood offer because she wanted to, become a nun. Later she decided that she lacked a true vocation, won a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute singing Butterfly's Un bel di, the only operatic aria she knew. When she auditioned before Conductor Eugene Ormandy. he marveled: "It is impossible for anyone that beautiful to know how to sing...
...telephone call last week from another big moneyman. The caller: Boston's Abraham M. Sonnabend, the real estate wheeler-dealer who heads Hotel Corp. of America, Botany Industries, and a fistful of other companies. Could they set up a meeting some time later in the week? Kirby knew why. For months, Sonnabend and a group of associates had been quietly buying Alleghany stock, and they owned some 700,000 shares, or about 14% of the common stock outstanding. They obviously wanted to get in. Alleghany, said the Boston financier, was "an excellent investment opportunity...
...thousands of subparts, the consultants got the estimates of scientists and technicians on how long each step should take, fed the predictions into a computer, got back success-probability curves. If the machine said a certain component had only a 10% chance of being ready on time, the Navy knew it had to put more money and men behind it or find a different way to do the job. In such cases the Navy could consult the computer to find out which of a score or more shortcuts around the obstacle was the best...
...Allied soldier from General Eisenhower to Pvt. Schultz knew it. but D-day's luckiest augury was a pair of women's grey suede shoes, size 5½. They nestled in the command car of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel as he sped away from his Normandy headquarters on the morning of June 4, 1944, D-minus-two. Rommel, charged with throwing back any invasion attempt, planned to ask Hitler for reinforcements during his visit to Germany, but something more personal sent him on his trip. June 6 was his wife's birthday, and the Desert Fox planned...
Code by Verlaine. As Author Ryan spells out in detail, the Germans knew almost to the hour when D-day was coming and fluffed their unparalleled opportunity to mangle the invasion forces. As early as January 1944, wily Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, then chief of German intelligence, had briefed Lieut. Colonel Hellmuth Meyer, intelligence officer and chief of a radio-monitoring unit with the Pas-de-Calais-based Fifteenth Army, on the code message with which the Allies would alert the European underground for the invasion. It consisted of the first two lines of the poem Chanson d'Automne...