Word: naming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Havre, and ten minutes after it arrived was in a fight with British Tommies. At Coëtquidan, the Battery settled down to learning how to fire French 75s. It had already worn out three captains. It was at Coëtquidan that a fourth came along. His name: Harry S. Truman...
...British statesman Lord Balfour met a young Russian-Jewish chemist. For more than an hour, he listened while the young man in passionate broken English tried to explain what Zionism was all about. Finally Balfour said: "Are there many Jews who think like you?" The young man, whose name was Chaim Weizmann, replied: "I believe I speak the mind of millions of Jews whom you will never see and who cannot speak for themselves, but with whom I could pave the streets of the country I come from." Balfour looked thoughtful. "If that is so," he replied, "you will...
Prince Charles of Edinburgh would soon be officially on the map: his grandfather okayed plans to give the name "Prince Charles Strait" to a channel between Elephant and Cornwallis Islands, in the Antarctic...
...ranging from a mellow low contralto to a brilliant mezzo-soprano, glided through songs by Gluck, Haydn, Schubert, Rossini, Mahler, Ravel and De-Falla; the performance came to an end with the Sleep-Walking Scene from Verdi's Macbeth. The audience shuffled their programs to look at the name again. Thirtyish Elena Nikolaidi, making her U.S. debut and almost unknown outside Athens and Vienna, had achieved one of the smash hits of the season...
...team has not yet elected a captain to succeed Ray and may name one on a point system based on the remaining matches. This is the least of Butch Jordan's exam period worries...