Word: le
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harold William Blackeby, Richard Brewster Fawcott, George Bell Frankforter, Jr., Alden Robert Grove, Charles Jomart Hardy, Wharton Drexel Hubbard, John Samuel Jillson, Edward Atkinson McLeod, Lawrence Newell Marcus, Charles Murray Purinton, Wendell Frederick Smith, Jr., John Le Baron Turner, William Russell Van Gemert, Stephen Jerome Welsh, De De Williams...
André Le Plantier, 50, meek-eyed bank teller: "At the liberation, when I saw the sacrifices they made for France, I felt a moral obligation...
...until two weeks before the referendum, most French politicians unwittingly played Thorez' game by blandly pretending that they believed in the C.P.'s essential patriotism. But now French politics was warming up. Last week Socialist Interior Minister André Le Troquer, a one-armed veteran cried...
When the 7,933-ton Zebulon Vance left Le Havre on May 7 with 369 G.I. brides and 57 children, a port commander said the ship was "in excellent condition." Two physical checkups had certified that the G.I. babies were in "good health." Since the Zebulon Vance was sailing 40 under capacity, there were hopes of a reasonably comfortable crossing. After many a tearful Gallic farewell, the brides settled down to what should have been the happiest voyage of their lives...
Charges that medical and health arrangements on the Vance had been inadequate and slipshod indicated that conditions might have been ripe for an outbreak in the ship's nursery. But Army investigators reported that, despite the clearance at Le Havre, some of the babies were suffering from malnutrition when they were brought aboard ship. Said the investigators: "The outbreak . . . was due to a filterable virus and spread through contact infection...