Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heart was high, his spirits soaring. The Greek army was slowly beating back the Communist guerrillas who, more than once, had been close to engulfing the whole country. Georgios and 200,000 Greek soldiers like him had accomplished this feat with the help of a soldier from a foreign land with a heart every bit as stout as theirs. He was Lieut. General James Alward Van Fleet, combat infantryman, sometime U.S. division and corps commander and now head of the Joint U.S. Military Advisory and Planning Group (JUSMAPG) in Greece...
...Kathenas chei to pono tou-everyone has his wound,' say the Greeks. Greece is bleeding from a million wounds. It is a country of refugees and prisoners. Vast hordes of peasants have left their meager land to escape the Red terror. In ramshackle huts on the fringes of provincial towns, they sit hungrily day after day. When a foreign newsman appears, they gather around him. Why does the U.S. not send a torrent of aid? Most of those who ask this question have kin or acquaintances who came back rich from America. To them the U.S. is a bottomless...
...most of its area by a tropical sun. It is easy to procrastinate, or carioca-fashion, to spend the day on a white-sand beach. Until some of the hustle of industrial São Paulo can be injected into the rest of Brazil, the country will be the "land of tomorrow." Or, as Rio's Mayor Angelo Mendes de Moraes said recently, "the day after tomorrow-and don't forget the day after tomorrow is a holiday...
...German title, Fliege mit Mir in die Heimat (Fly with me to the home-land), and a man named Franz Winkler was listed as its composer. Some thought it came from an old German folk song. Whatever its origin, it had become a D.P. song and had swung through the concentration camps after the war. Last week, Fliege mit Mir, dolled up with new lyrics and a new name, Forever and Ever, was flying near the top of the U.S. hit parade...
...president and major stockholder of a bank which once refused him a loan. He employs 107 full-time workers, and in the weeks of "detasseling" (just before the strains are pollinated) recruits 1.500 helpers from nearby high schools. His payroll is $400,000 a year, the value of his land and equipment $1,800,000. He is a smart businessman and works hard at it, but looks tired and bored in his office. His eyes light up only when he gets out in a field...