Word: pug
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troopers by Italian guerrillas. He ordered the killing of 335 Romans in the Ardeatine Caves (among the victims were women, schoolchildren, babies and 15 persons rounded up at the last minute as "extras"). Two subordinate German generals have been sentenced to death for that outrage (TIME, Dec. 9). But pug-faced, "Smiling Albert" Kesselring was still a good enough soldier to insist, "If there is any guilt, it is mine and mine alone...
Britons wanted something to make them feel better, and London's press had built Heavyweight Bruce Woodcock, a conscientious pug-ugly, into a minor national symbol of hope. Then Joe Baksi, an invader from the U.S., rudely flattened the symbol by breaking Woodcock's jaw in the first round and going on to a seventh-round technical knockout. The BBC announcer made the fight sound as if a big bully had picked on a nice little man in the street who was harmlessly minding his own business...
Fred Allen Show (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Guests: Pug-uglies Max Rosenbloom and Max Baer...
...Cairo last week a freckled, pug-nosed Arab soldier-adventurer basked in glory. The Arab press hailed him as a hero. The exiled Mufti of Jerusalem, grey-bearded Haj Amin El-Husseini, received him warmly. The Lebanese Legation gave a reception for him. He granted interviews in his suite at the Hotel Continental, talked cheerfully about starting an Arab war against both British and Jews in Palestine...
...year, for the first time in the history of Manhattan's blueblood Westminster Kennel Club show, was a boxer, a mighty pug-ugly named Warlord of Mazelaine, which won best-in-show over 2,598 rivals. The decision was up to one judge and his conscience, and he cleared it this way: "The Boston [terrier] impressed me very much but the boxer was best tonight. Perhaps tomorrow the Boston would have had the better...