Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ROUCHDY Royal Egyptian Embassy Washington...
...papers say he's keeping in close touch with the situation," said he. "Well, 4,000 miles would be close enough for me, too." But many another Briton, shivering in the grip of the coal crisis, took a kinder view as the papers reported, inch by inch, the royal progress to South Africa...
...thing, fashion reporters were finally permitted to disclose the breathlessly awaited details of the royal trousseaux. Hats were "off the face," for royalty may not hide from onlookers under a lowering brim. For Princess Elizabeth there were pastel evening gowns, "really romantic, with rustling, or softly flowing full skirts." For 16-year-old Margaret ("She's a nice kid," said one of the designers, "with a naughty glint in her eye"), at least one "slinky, grown-up looking, sophisticated" chiffon. "Her Majesty," wrote one reporter, "is expected to land in a misty blue, bordered with matching ostrich feathers...
...visit, with the threat to strike again when the King had gone home. In Cape Town 18 young men (carefully matched in weight and height) were reported practicing on a three-inch bar suspended like a tightrope to perfect their balance when they took over as stewards on the royal train. Snapped the New Statesman's Kingsley Martin when this news reached London: "Buckingham Palace needs a sensible public-relations department. The King and Queen have a sufficiently burdensome job without this tomfool buildup...
...Morison reminds readers, no neat and compact affair. It was a mammoth multi-pronged attack, with the flanks about 900 miles apart. While the U.S. task force struck Morocco along the Atlantic coast, two separate Royal Navy task forces, carrying both U.S. and British troops, struck from the Mediterranean against Oran and Algiers. Ultimate success depended not only on the luck and timing of all three strikes, but upon what happened when Montgomery suddenly turned on Rommel at El Alamein. Montgomery needed tanks before he could turn. Stripping its own armored divisions, the U.S. had sent him 400 General Shermans...