Word: puy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundreds of aircraft flying from the big, fait carriers of Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet. He peered through red-rimmed eyes as the air groups were flown off and formed up at dawn, hundreds of miles east of their targets. His chief of staff, Rear Admiral Wilder Du Puy Baker, is a grandfather, but McCain addressed him as "Son." He addressed everybody on the flag bridge as "Son." One of them was Commander John S. ("Jimmy") Thach, inventor of the Navy fighter plane technique for Jap-killing, known as the "Thach weave...
Last week the Vichy area suffered from its worst flood since 1907. Angrily swollen, the Allier River inundated parts of Vichy itself, nearby Puy-de-Dóme, and neighboring farmlands...
...June 11 Mrs. Jolas phoned Joyce that she had found a two-room flat in St. Gérand-le-Puy, urged him to move there for safety. Joyce refused. He added: "Have you heard anything about that book* that I asked you to get me from the Gotham Book Mart?" Mrs. Jolas said she hadn't. "Well," said Joyce, "it wouldn't hurt to drop a postal card into the box." The Nazis crossed the Marne...
...Beckett, had just come from Paris. He added: "Have you heard anything about that book that I asked you to get me from the Gotham Book Mart?" Next day Paris fell. Day after that Mrs. Jolas ran into Giorgio Joyce on the street in St. Gérand-le-Puy, with all the Joyce luggage, looking for a place to stay. So, by then, were hundreds of others...
When Vichy finally granted a second visa, there was no gasoline for the drive from St. Gérand-le-Puy to Vichy. Defying police regulations, Giorgio Joyce bicycled to Vichy, begged every embassy and consulate for gasoline. Finally a bank clerk gave his last gallon of gas, which was enough to take the Joyces to the train...