Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once again Admiral William F. ("Bull") Halsey performed for the photographers. Aboard his flagship, the mighty Missouri, he used a bayonet to slice a cake iced like a Japanese flag. But he was unhappy. He was about to go into Japan, and almost everybody expected him to ride the Emperor's white horse when he got there...
...appears that the German woman sold the two G.Is a large slice of geobaloney...
...began to end just about the time Grammer moved in. The pulps (only 7 are left) are almost a sideline now. The largest slice of Street & Smith's profits comes from Mademoiselle (Milly around the office), 354-page, ad-packed junior Vogue (circ. 433.830). Charm, designed for business girls ("Men Crave Resistance"), is another success...
Potsdam recognized the new Lebensraum. Yalta had given a large slice of Poland (see map) to U.S.S.R.; Potsdam made the Germans foot the bill. What Poland lost to the Russians was about half again as large in area as what she got from the Germans. But the new Polish territory ripped from Germany, stretching to within 35 miles of Berlin, included coal and iron in German Silesia, the transportation centers of Breslau and Küstrin and some 200 miles of Baltic seacoast, with the great port of Danzig and Berlin's seaport, Stettin. In industrial value, at least...
Ribbons & Spoils. Next morning the U.S. and British military governments took full command of their respective sectors. (The French had to wait, as guests of the British, until their slice of Berlin was precisely determined.) Local Russian commanding officers paid courtesy calls on their Allied opposites. Britain's Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, in a ceremony attended by 100 stately Grenadier Guardsmen went to the Brandenburger Tor, there awarded Marshal Zhukov the "Honory Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath...