Word: les
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign, condemned to death by Vichy. The sight of him might have caused General Dentz pain. General de Verdillac, however, lost no time in putting things on a cozy footing. He leaned toward an Australian sentry, winked, made a throat-slitting gesture with one hand and whispered: "Les Baches...
...Author. Chief difficulty in writing about Christian goodness is that almost nobody believes it is possible. Next difficulty is that few people find it exciting. In Les Misérables Victor Hugo succeeded in making goodness exciting by free flourishes of his supercolossal, Wagnerian style. His Bishop Myriel is Christian virtue carried to the point of elephantiasis. Author Cronin succeeds by exactly the opposite means-by simplicity, artful artlessness, complete sincerity...
...consistent record breaking of 23-year-old Les Steers has made track fans blink. A broad-shouldered, slim-hipped six-footer. Steers has been a jumping freak since he was so high. As a ten-year-old Palo Alto schoolboy, he cleared the bar at 5 ft. 4 in. Spotted by Stanford's star-eyed Track Coach Dink Templeton, the little jumping jack had his style changed from the childish scissors to the Western roll (going over parallel with the bar). By the time he was an eighth-grader, young Steers could jump 6 ft. 2 in., competed with...
...Belgian Congo tribe of dark-skinned giants, the Watusi have been known to jump 8 ft.; but they tower 8 ft. tall and take off from anthills nearly a foot high. Les Steers is just a fraction over 6 ft. tall, and never uses an anthill. Yet he has gone on inching near & nearer to 7 ft. Last week, four days before the National Collegiate championships, Steers jumped 6 ft. 11 in. at the Pacific Coast v. Big Ten track meet. One of these days, the experts are ready to admit, Steers may tie the Watusi...
...Premier Paul Reynaud was allowed to leave his Vals-les-Bains prison under heavy guard to visit his ailing 94-year-old mother for a few hours. ∙∙ Dr. Alexis Carrel, last reported detained in Occupied France, is now reported by Vichy to be studying malnutrition in Belgium. ∙∙ Salvationist General Evangeline Booth's niece, Colonel Mary Booth, was found in a detention camp in southern Germany...