Word: lichfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of its similarities, this was no Nazi concentration camp, but the prison stockade of the U.S. Army's 10th Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield, in England's Midlands. The victims of these brutalities were U.S. soldiers-most of them AWOL (often by the technicality of having overstayed a pass by a few hours); only a small proportion of them were guilty of more serious crimes...
Dogs and Dictionaries. Born (1709) "half-dead," infected with scrofula that almost ruined his eyes and disfigured him for life, Britain's future literary bull of Bashan was raised in the cathedral town of Lichfield, where his father was an impecunious bookseller. Moody, sensitive, strongwilled, young Sam was bitterly ashamed of his parents' struggle to make both ends meet. "Poor people's children," he insisted later, "never respect [their parents]: I did not respect my own mother, though I loved her: and one day, when in anger she called me a puppy, I asked if she knew what they called...