Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was a safe enough guess; fighting had spread already. From Yugoslavia Marshal Tito reported heavy Partisan attacks on German communication lines through the Vardar and Ibar Valleys, main routes to Greece. Albanian and Greek Partisans also reported fresh activity against German forces. From restless, suffering France came details of the tough resistance put up by the Maquis of the Haute-Savoie region...
Daniel De Luce, amiable, able Associated Press war correspondent, who last year scored with his dispatches datelined "A Partisan Brigade Headquarters, in Yugoslavia" (TIME, Oct. 18), was awarded $500 on the recommendation of Columbia University's School of Journalism Pulitzer Prize Committee -"for a distinguished example of telegraphic reporting on international affairs. . . ." Other $500 Pulitzer Prize winners...
...keep up the spirits of the wounded, unanesthetized men-and to drown the sound of the saw gritting through bone- Dr. X ordered boys & girls to sing Partisan songs. The wounded stared hard at the ceiling, sometimes hoarsely joined the singing. Often half of the injured were women...
...Lice. Dr. Nikolic, another Partisan surgeon, is a little, weary man with a fighter's heart and a scholar's mind (in 1926 he held a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to study malaria). In 1943 the Germans put him in a concentration camp, held him there nine months until the Partisans traded a German officer for him. Among the Partisans his fight has been as much against disease as against wounds...
...Partisan Tubs." Dr. Nikolic's favorite weapon was the "Partisan Tubs." Some were plain gasoline tins, placed over fire and filled with lousy clothes and blankets...