Word: metzing
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...riverbank. Within days, the XX Corps lanced through the battleground that had been dismally fought over for years in World War I-Reims, Epernay, Chateau-Thierry, Verdun. Walker pushed on across the Meuse, but with the enemy in rout, Patton ordered him to "sit down" 40 miles short of Metz. The Third Army, which needed 450,000 gallons of automotive fuel a day, was almost...
...Heart. In Metz, France, Jean Rozaire, hospitalized for three months after his wife carved him with a scythe, asked the court to free her before her year's sentence is up because he doesn't know how to cook...
...grass fire; he tied Sam Snead and two others for first in the Bing Crosby Invitation, took a third in the Los Angeles Open, won the Rio Grande Valley Open and was up in the money at Long Beach, Phoenix and Tucson. But to pros like Kansas' Dick Metz (who thinks Burke will win the National Open) all this was less impressive than the youngster's background...
...studied law, built up a successful practice in Metz. When Lorraine was returned to France in 1919, he was elected deputy from his district, and has been reelected ever since. The first to "discover" him was wartime Premier Paul Reynaud, who made him Undersecretary for Refugees in 1940. At one point during the war, Schuman was kept in solitary confinement by the Germans. "It did not leave me bad memories," he says. "I meditated...
...Said he: "A concentration camp is not an argument." Later he managed to escape by masquerading as a French schoolteacher, hid out in various French monasteries. He spoke a few times before refugee groups. One night, in the crypt of a big Lyon church, he told the Bishop of Metz and 1,500 fellow Lorrainers: "Hitler is lost! You may be sure of that." After that, the Nazis put a price on his head. Friends who knew him before the war now find him subtly changed. Schuman, the Premier, has more warmth than Schuman, the lawyer...