Word: rendezvouses
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Into the hot hills of the Desert Training Center (TIME, July 19) slogged a platoon on its six-day endurance maneuver -39 men and a lieutenant. Last week 36 came back, reported three dead, one missing. During the first night out they missed a rendezvous with the water truck. The...
Perhaps, as speculation presented the scene, the haggard, thinning Duce made a last impassioned plea for military aid, then listened to an equally impassioned refusal (see p. 30). Surely it was a rendezvous with frustration. From it the Duce had gone again to Rome.
All this called for mathematical precision, and Admiral Hewitt brought to his task one of the most brilliant mathematical minds the Navy ever had. To his natural bent he had added some formidable experience. Last July he was given the job of planning the Moroccan landings. He had to design...
Most of California's boom-built, improbable, concrete roadside stands of 1923, shaped like coffeepots, lemons, pumpkins, setting hens, hot dogs, were fly-by-night curiosities. But the Brown Derby somehow became the rendezvous of glamor.
I wondered vaguely to what sort of rendezvous this dress rehearsal was leading. . . . The following morning the newspapers announced Mr. Lewis' call for the third walkout of the coal miners since the March 31 armistice. . . .