Word: res
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Engineers, They couldn't lick the Infantry in a hundred thousand years. > Last song in the Army book, first when the columns are marching, is still You're in the Army Now. > Unfit to print for the 1941 Army was Mad'moiselle from Armentières. Soldiers with a yen for back-room balladry will have to get along with a laundered, abbreviated Bastard King of England (retitled The Minstrels Sing of an English King) and a sanitized Colombo (borrowed from the Book of Navy Songs...
...Wittelsbach Palace near Munich, after an attempt to rescue him from solitary confinement in the garret of the Hotel Metropole in Vienna. *"To pay $20 or $25 a bottle for what is known . . . as 'original Chartreuse' (that manufactured before the expulsion from France of the Pères Chartreux) is . . . to pay a matter of $15 for a superiority which simply does not exist" (Schoonmaker and Marvel, The Complete Wine Book...
...rough and wooded Ardennes, German spearheads crushed the Belgian Chasseurs and drove straight at the Maginot Extension below Sedan. They made a dent, the dent was widened to a pocket. The pocket became a bulge when other columns crushed through: below Namur near Dinant, Givet, Mèziéres; above Namur at Gembloux. Flinging power behind power to the full extent of their resources. Hitler's generals watched their plans unfold...
...fell from Joseph Stalin's favor, but few Bolsheviks close to a fallen bigwig survive for long. Last week the Moscow radio significantly broke a story that began the middle of last month when Edouard Daladier, then French Premier, sent his Moscow Chargé d'Affaíres around to ask Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov about a not only objectionable but very queer telegram handed in at Paris for transmission to Moscow...
...loving Golfer Demaret (rhymes with croquette) as he pocketed $700 first-prize money, bringing his eight weeks' earnings to $6,077. Though he had won five of the season's nine tournaments and earned twice as much as his nearest rival, Jimmy's confrères as well as the galleries saluted him last week. "It couldn't have happened to a nicer fellow," they chorused...