Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real" Southerner-a statement I make with some pride-and in the next breath I say I am embarrassed and saddened by the words and actions of individuals like Tom Linder. I offer my poor apology for them to the rest of our good Americans-Northern, Western, or wherever else they...
France named Cogny to command Indo-China's northern front with its crucial Red River Delta. Cogny, at 48, was a general...
Twenty minutes later they found him, 75 yards up the road. He had been killed by a Communist land mine.* In Hanoi, while a military honor guard stood by his casket, the French northern-front commander, General René Cogny, awarded a posthumous Croix de Guerre with palm leaf to Robert Capa, 40, the first U.S. correspondent to be killed in the Indo-China war. Said Cogny: "He fell like a soldier. He deserves a soldier's honors...
...been in the piggyback business for years. The New Haven has been piggybacking since 1937, now carries more than 50,000 trailers a year and grosses $2,000,000 on the service. But it is only recently that most of the giants have become interested. Last month the Great Northern started a piggyback service between the Twin Cities and Duluth. This month the Lackawanna, the Erie, the Nickel Plate and the Pennsylvania are all launching similar services; the New York Central, the Lehigh Valley, the Union Pacific and the Missouri-Kansas-Texas are also about to join the parade...
...cupids, the avenue of trees . . . We still hear the great clock on the parish church, the organ in the palace chapel . . . But we do not hear the King's hunt in the forest, the hounds and the horns . . . The rooms, so empty today, so cold with their northern light, were crammed to bursting point when she lived in them; crammed with people, animals and birds . . . furniture, stuffs, patterns . . . plans, sketches, maps, books . . . embroidery . . . letters . . . cosmetics: all buried in flowers, smelling like a hothouse...