Word: ops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single moment one basic fact -our country remains the single socialist state in the world. You can say this openly to the collective farmers. . . . Only the most direct danger which threatened us from Germany has disappeared." The Old School. Even this cogent demagoguery would not overcome all op, position. Kalinin was not wholly sorry; he hoped that the people would talk back to the organizers. (The tragedy of all successful revolutionaries is that they must hand over the power to men who were not tempered in the fires that tempered them. Part of Moscow's sense of insecurity comes...
Laval turned philosopher. To a fellow prisoner going to death he said: "Ne t'en fais pas: it lasts only a few seconds . . . it's like being killed in a bus accident on the Place de 1'Op...
Still in their minds was Adolf Hitler's triumphal visit to Paris in June, 1940. He nursed three ambitions: to sign the armistice at Compiègne, to visit Napoleon's tomb and to enjoy a performance of the Paris Opéra. Hitler and his entourage were solicitously shepherded around the Opéra by agile, gypsylike ballet master Serge Lifar and the massive pro-German Wagnerian soprano, Mme. Germaine Lubin. Next night the opera company put on a command performance...
Died. Rear Admiral Forrest B. Royal. 52, stocky commander of amphibious op erations in this month's Brunei Bay invasion of northwest Borneo, veteran of Leyte and Luzon, onetime secretary to the Joint Chiefs of Staff; of coronary thrombosis...
Money was as scarce as music was abundant, and Robert went to work as a percussionist in the Opéra-Comique; he rang the bells for Lakmé. Tympani took him through his Conservatory days, and then he went into the army. During his military career he solemnly rataplanned the drums at Versailles as Woodrow Wilson marched by with Clemenceau...