Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...assume, however, that you are referring to Count Eric von Rosen whose name has been mentioned in connection with me elsewhere in the press and even in Congress. Eric von Rosen, it is true, is a relative of mine, but you will have to go back five generations to find a common ancestor. As far as I can remember I met Eric von Rosen only once in my life and that was about 20 years ago. Unfortunately for me, he is a brother-in-law of Hermann Göring, his wife's sister being the first wife...
Within the harsh clamp of the Japanese blockade, Free China strove patiently and primitively to keep her economy breathing. A scene caught by the camera at a salt mine told part of the story...
Nearly all the Germans had pulled out. They were gone, too, from Gaeta. The troops, watched by Lieut. General Mark Clark (who narrowly escaped being blown up by an exploding land mine), then pushed on into Itri and Fondi. This week U.S. patrols fought into Terracina, were thrown out, waited to fight their way back when the main bodies came...
...Canada, the Cromwells' domestic relations continued to deteriorate. Said the Cromwell counsel, State Senator John E. Toolan: "She humiliated him greatly by her indifference" to the responsibilities of a diplomat's wife even though she dutifully joined him in such chores as inspecting a Canadian gold mine (see cut). Her "conduct and her carryings on" were "shameful and shocking...
...along the Atlantic Wall, got a peremptory order to kill their 300,000 tame rabbits, bred during the past year as an escape from boredom and garrison rations. Reason for the slaughter: invasion bombs and shells might turn the cottontails loose, set them to setting off the artfully contrived mine fields and booby traps designed for Allied soldiers...