Word: ral
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus God and Hitler link'd the gen'ral frame...
Some folks dare to call Vinson "Uncle Carl," and sometimes "The Swamp Fox," after the Revolution's great strategist, Francis Marion. In committee hearings Uncle Carl's slow drawl and subtle digs ("Wha'd'ya say yer name wuz, Gen'ral?") can shake stars and tangle braid. Though he has long been a stalwart defender of a big Navy, knowledgeable Carl Vinson is also a wise, powerful force for a strong military establishment. But Ike's plan was too much for Uncle Carl...
Charles Munch once commented: "It is a joy to make music with them." To Woody, a greater joy is the knowledge that, partly thanks to his group, no college glee club worthy of the name can any longer get by with Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral and Champagne Charlie...
...quick succession the tower was turned down by the state railroads, post office and TV station. When private capital also refused to bite last week, the only remaining buyer in sight seemed to be the department of the Somme. But the Somme's Conseil Général has already put itself on record as waiting "until the government offers us the tower for a symbolic payment of one franc...
Died. Constant Victor André Mornet, 85, Procureur Général of France, prosecutor in the trials of Dutch dancing-girl-turned-spy Mata Hari (1917), Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval (1945); in Nohant-Vic, France. Called by his government to prosecute Pétain, Mornet summed up in a stormy five-hour speech, concluded: "I would not be doing my duty if I did not insist on the capital penalty...