Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line of march ended at Abbasiya, a suburb of Cairo, where Nokrashy was laid to rest in a mausoleum side by side with his old friend, Ahmed Maher Pasha, who as Egypt's Premier in 1945 had also gone down under an assassin's bullet...
Last week, with 2,200 students, the Free University was going full swing. It was laying plans to set up a full-fledged law school, had already organized its medical school. Most of the students are veterans, almost all must work on the side to pay for their crowded, underheated rooms and for the tasteless food they...
...Battle of the Bulge, he is reported (by one of his staff) to have called in Third Army Chaplain James H. O'Neill, and said: "Chaplain, I want you to publish a prayer for good weather . . . See if we can't get God to work on our side." The chaplain demurred but Patton roared: "Chaplain, are you teaching me theology or are you the chaplain of the Third Army? I want a prayer." The prayer, printed with a Christmas greeting, was distributed to the troops...
...began Patton in a prayer on Dec. 23, 1944, the eve of the Ardennes offensive, "this is Patton talking . . . Rain, snow, more rain, more snow-and I am beginning to wonder on which side they actually are in Thy headquarters . . . You must decide for Yourself on whose, side You are standing. You must come to my help so that I can annihilate the whole German army with one stroke as a birthday present for Your Prince of Peace...
Author O'Faoláin is aware of their limitation. Speaking of Irish writers generally, he once remarked that they had come from poor households, and there was a side of life they did not know. Their romance, he said, could only "be made out of what we have-rags and bones, moonlight, limed cabins, struggle, the passion of our people, a bitter history, great folly, a sense of eternity in all things, a courage 'never to submit or yield...