Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patsy for a handsome guy." She fell in & out of love as wildly and thoughtlessly as a high-school girl. In 1940, she had married a young yacht broker named Willis Hunt Jr., left him in two months complaining that he was "sarcastic." Two years later, in war-darkened London, she fell ecstatically in love with a young American aviator, Captain Thomas Wallace. They were married in a church-"with a veil and all"-after which she hurried off to Africa. When she saw him in New York the following summer, she found that she hardly knew him. She divorced...
...ancient Greece invariably observed a "sacred truce." This week Greek guerrillas had cut the relay route of the Olympic torch. Runners by day and night were to have borne the fiery symbol the entire length of Greece on its way from Olympia to the opening of the games at London on July 29. Instead, the torch could be carried a mere 20 miles to the nearest port, whence a British destroyer would take it to Bari, Italy, for the long relay through five countries to the English Channel...
Categoric Assertion. Notes of protest handed last week to Soviet ambassadors in Washington, London and Paris were about as strong as diplomatic notes can be. Said the U.S. note: "The U.S. Government categorically asserts that it is in occupation of its sector in Berlin with free access thereto as a matter of established right ... It will not be induced by threats, pressures or other actions to abandon these rights . . . The U.S. Government is therefore obliged to insist that . . . traffic between the Western zones and Berlin be fully restored. There can be no question of delay...
...London, Tory M.P. Leonard David Gammans put it more bluntly: "This is . . . Moscow-inspired, Communist in origin, and part of a worldwide attack against Great Britain...
That opened up a new world to Mike. For the first time he read the sourdough sagas of Jack London and Robert Service, and learned of a Klondike more glittering than his own. At first he carefully distinguished between his own achievements and the sourdough sagas, recited with a will The Cremation of Sam McGee and The Shooting of Dan McGrew...