Word: lionheartedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handsome Alfonso VIII of Castile was married to a haughty English princess named Eleanor of Aquitaine (sister of Richard the Lionhearted), but he tired of her and ran off to Toledo with his darkly lovely Jewish mistress. The love story lasted for seven years, and then the mistress was poisoned...
The swordmakers of Solingen, in Western Germany, knew a thing or two about cutting edges long before Richard the Lionhearted matched blades with wily Saladin. Roman soldiers who had served in the East brought many of the steelmaking secrets of Damascus into the Rhineland, and in the 6th Century Theodoric...
"Lionhearted Leningrad, city of the Revolution. London is with you. . . . London salutes the heroes of Leningrad. . . . Victory is yours. Long live Leningrad!"
Lionhearted Leningrad. Rain and the first snow, driving Field Marshal Ritter von Leeb's northern forces like Hitler's fury, impeded German and Finnish efforts to close the ring around Leningrad (see map).
Of all the men who have dreamed of a Pan-American highway, happiest dreamer last week was probably Richard Albert Tewkesbury, 34, skinny, frail, 112-lb., 5 ft. 3 in. algebra instructor at Harding High School in Charlotte, N.C. "Tooks," as he is known to the students who tower over...