Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...German armies had driven deep into Russia, and in August, General Friedrich Paulus' Sixth Army closed in on Stalingrad on the Volga. The Soviets resisted fiercely. As fall and then the bitter winter set in. Paulus' men inched into Stalingrad, fighting house to house. But like Napoleon, Hitler had come too far into Russia and reckoned without the Russian cold. The suffering and bravery of Stalingrad in that terrible winter became a new myth of an enduring Soviet Union. The Red Army, under Georgi Zhukov, managed to encircle Paulus' 200,000-man army and batter it into...
Hemorrhoids, or piles, are one of civilization's oldest medical complaints. They afflict perhaps half of all adult Americans. One famous sufferer was supposedly Napoleon, who is said to have had such excruciating pain at Waterloo he could not sleep or sit on his horse. Carter's "physical injury," as he described it, was less debilitating. It only cost him, besides that one day's appointments, his daily jogging and a quail hunt...
...Napoleon Bonaparte...
...long as Bogart, Cassady, Kerouac and all the rest are not around to complain, they look livelier and livelier to the Hollywood idea men in the age of gossip. Trouble is, complains Rod Steiger, a man who has already portrayed ten historical characters on the screen, including Napoleon and W.C. Fields, the wrong shades are being called back from the dead. "Joan Crawford? That's entertainment value. But go out and try to do the life of Beethoven or Albert Schweitzer or Einstein. You march into a producer's office and say you want to do Einstein...
...England, broadcasting to Latin America for the BBC, and working for various international organizations. All the while he poured out-in English, French and Spanish-a torrent of political books, literary essays, novels, poems, plays, histories and biographies. (His Bolivar dubbed the great liberator "a vulgar imitator of Napoleon.") In Anarchy or Hierarchy (1937), Madariaga called for political equality but social hierarchy, since he believed that "inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty." His decades of exile, he once told a reporter, were not too bad since, he said. "I carry Spain inside...