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Word: langs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real victory dinner of roast beef, carrots and plenty of good red wine that night while rifle and machine gun fire was still crackling up and down the dark streets outside," Lang cabled, "and then we three correspondents slept in the Majestic-the only Allied garrison in Tunis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 24, 1943 | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...make out, TIME Correspondent Will Lang and four companions (a French reporter, an American newscaster and two English soldiers) were the first men in United Nations uniform to reach the center of Tunis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 24, 1943 | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...still mopping up in the suburbs), pulled up as big as life at Nazi headquarters in the Majestic Hotel before the last Germans had cleared out. There weren't any Allied troops within three or four miles, but so many natives and Frenchmen turned out to cheer Lang and his friends that the Nazis inside scrammed out the back door to the garage and made their getaway after planting grenades in the motors of all the cars they were not using for their escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 24, 1943 | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

...Will Lang's entry into Tunis was not quite so peaceful. The roads were strewn with wrecks of cars and tanks, clouds of dust and cordite hung in the air. Five Germans tried to give themselves up to Lang's party, and there was an Axis officer who had just seen his brother shot in the stomach for suggesting surrender. Later two cars flashed past 60 miles an hour, the second firing at the first and someone in the first car shouting his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 24, 1943 | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

This cable from Correspondent Will Lang at the front in Tunisia had nothing to do with horsemeat. The "pony" is a miniature edition of TIME-and Lang was reporting the safe arrival of the first shipment flown 10,000 miles over land and sea to our news-hungry fighters in North Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 3, 1943 | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

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