Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...including 60,000 killed or dead of wounds (5,000 more casualties and 35,000 more combat dead than the U.S. lost in three years of Korea). Almost all of the officers and noncoms are French, but the annual drain on trained officers has steadily exceeded the output of Saint-Cyr, France's West Point. Aside from the toll of blood from a nation that had bled so much in two world wars, the war was costing France a staggering sum-$1.3 billion last year, of which the U.S. supplied $400 million plus direct delivery of war goods...
...polished, urbane scholar, was a professor of Greek at Toulouse University, but his son set out early on a military career, served on the front in 1916, and with the Americans at Chateau-Thierry in 1918 (retaining from that an unwavering admiration for U.S. troops). He graduated from Saint-Cyr in 1918, later went back for further studies...
What Every Hostess Knows. In Saint John, N.B., the Telegraph-Journal reported: "Mrs. Howard Geldart entertained the members of St. Paul's Church Mothers Union . . . Covers were laid for 30 guests. Friends of Mrs. Geldart will regret to learn that she is now a patient in the Saint John General Hospital...
Each unassuming page shows why the dizzy decade of Teapot Dome, bathtub gin, flappers, crooners and "It" girls found in him an untarnished symbol of its better self. No Antoine de Saint Exupery, no philosopher of flight, Lindbergh rarely rises to poetic altitudes and sometimes drones on in childhood reveries and me chanical details. But at its exciting best, his book keeps the reader cockpit-close to a rare adventure...
...Clare's death. Pilgrims and dignitaries from all over the world poured into the little Umbrian town for two days of special services and speeches. In the triumphant procession that climaxed the celebration, behind long lines of tonsured friars and bundled nuns, five relics of the saint were borne; a ball of yarn she had spun, a chip of her bones, a skein of hair cut off by St. Francis, her brown mantle, and the rough tunic she wore...