Word: riverbanks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France before World War II. After France fell and Petain took over, Herriot mailed his Legion of Honor decoration to Vichy. The Nazis imprisoned him in Germany, and he was three times reported dead. But he came back and set up his own little camp along the tent-speckled riverbank of French politics, as nominal head of the right-of-center Radical Socialist Party...
...stumbling about in at night. So when 32-year-old Gustave Dominici, whose farmhouse overlooks the river Durance, heard shots sometime after midnight on Aug. 5, he turned over and went back to sleep. But as soon as it was daylight Dominici took a walk along the riverbank in the direction of a car he had seen parked by the road the evening before. Beside the river he stumbled over the body of a small girl in pajamas, her skull shattered. Dominici sprinted toward the car. Under a plaid rug, among the roadside weeds, he found the body...
Summer guests at a hotel in Bad Ischl, in the Austrian lake country, noted the hand-in-hand riverbank walks of Baron Goldschmidt-Rothschild, 61, and a grey-wigged fellow guest who called herself Mrs. Harriet Brown. Beneath the wig: 46-year-old Incognito Expert Greta Garbo, who had shifted from the usual sun glasses to the trappings of middle age. But to reporters who finally penetrated the disguise, Garbo gave the same old answer: "I don't want to talk to anyone . . . The Baron is just a very good friend...
Walker's armored spearheads reached the Seine at Melun. The Seine crossings were savagely contested; Walker directed one himself, under fire on the riverbank. Within days, the XX Corps lanced through the battleground that had been dismally fought over for years in World War I-Reims, Epernay, Chateau-Thierry, Verdun. Walker pushed on across the Meuse, but with the enemy in rout, Patton ordered him to "sit down" 40 miles short of Metz. The Third Army, which needed 450,000 gallons of automotive fuel a day, was almost...
...clearing the expedition found three deserted straw shacks. On a table in one rested a freshly cut papaya. In another coolie clothes hung on a peg. Chickens scratched in a tiny garden patch. As they pulled away, the French tossed a grenade into a frail native dugout on the riverbank; it disappeared in an upheaval of water and swamp hyacinth. "It's hard on people who live here," explained an officer, "but if we leave their craft, the Viet Minh use them for moving ammunition and supplies. Small boats are the transport of this battle ground...