Word: martel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cure. In Sturbridge, Mass., George Martel conceded that termites had won a battle but not the war: he doused his house with gasoline, burned it to the ground...
...suggested, without extravagance, that our modern Western Civilization would probably have been derived from an Irish instead of a Roman embryo either if Colman instead of Wilfrid had won the Synod of Whitby in A.D. 664, or again if Abd-ar-Rahman instead of Charles Martel had won the battle of Tours in A.D. 732."-A. J. Toynbee, A Study of History. f Scotland has been Presbyterian since the Scottish barons, inspired by John Knox, bound themselves in covenant (1557) against Catholicism and in support of the Reformation. The church became the "established church" in 1707. Stubborn Scots argue that...
Said Lieut. General Sir Giffard Le Quesne Martel, who headed a British military mission to Moscow during the war, in a speech at Bristol: "I think he [Stalin] was banished to the Crimea for a bit and then he came back and found that Molotov and Vishinsky and that...
...Hollywood Reporter recently announced: "Andy Lawlor is being 'congratulated' on his heart trouble, is in line for an important studio job." In the same issue appeared an advertisement for an actor named Lance Martel, with the caption: "Lance Martel; Exempt-Experienced-Expert; $200 a week till Hitler's beat...
...paced the deck of the imperial yacht that summer evening in 1908, the Kaiser must have recalled Clovis the Frank, who carved a kingdom out of Gaul and South Germany in the 5th Century; and of Pepin the Young and his bastard son Charles Martel, statesmen rather than warlords, who founded the Carolingian Dynasty, the greatest ever to rule Germany. And of Charles the Great Carolingian, whose Empire stretched from the Elbe to the Ebro...