Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chatted on street corners without a furtive, over-the-shoulder look. We drove out along the Chelm road about a mile from town. Dmitri Kudriavtsev, Secretary of the Soviet Atrocities Commission, said: "They called this 'the road of death.' " Kudriavtsev is a short man, with curly hair and a nice face. He has an even, soft way of talking. You could not guess that he has pored over more horrors in the past three years than any living...
...eastern wing of the beachhead the Germans also showed some fight. But the garrison of Cannes was pounded into surrender by sea, air and land by D-plus-ten, and Allied forces advancing east went on toward Nice, only a few miles away. A plunge northeastward to Briangon brought the Seventh Army only five miles from the Italian frontier. Any German hope of evacuating large bodies of troops from southern France to northern Italy was virtually ended...
World Bar--The headline date of the weekend was seen with Gene McElvaney here. Various sources describe her as chic, exotic, slinking, striking, but all agree that she was very nice...
Totem Pole--At this quaint hideout were bottom men Mat Arsulich and Dale Waddell happy about the whole. Yes, this is one nice place...
...Americans but heavily sprinkled with French and British troops, made its first beachheads without great loss, grabbed its first objectives within an hour. In less than two hours, seven waves were ashore-perhaps 14,000 men-with many more still to come. The beachhead grew to 100 miles, from Nice to Marseilles...