Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With no Gallic kiss, but a handshake, sensitive General Henri Giraud (five stars) greeted sensitive General Charles de Gaulle (two stars) at Maison Blanche airport near Algiers this week. The leader of Fighting France looked pale, his slight double chin sagged tiredly as he reviewed a company of the Garde Mobile. Said he: "Bon jour, mon général. . . ." Said Giraud: ". . . Très content de vous voir." Then, in a blue Packard sedan, with General Georges Catroux (five stars) sitting between them, Generals Giraud and de Gaulle rode off to the long-awaited parley for a united...
...ground as something sterile and useless. Though much of it was kept on deposit in London, for convenience, it was transferred to the account of others, both in payment for imports to Britain and as new capital for those places where natural resources were great but development slight...
...Shortly before midnight on the 2nd September, 1942 . . . [German] Chief Mate Munte . . . was seated in his office in the Casquet [Channel Islands] lighthouse. . . . A slight noise-it may have been the click of the door as it closed softly-caused him to turn in his chair. Leaning against the door were two men with black faces. . . . Colt automatics, negligently poised, were in their hands...
...irreparable damage has thus far been slight. Given more rain and warmer weather, the nation's crops can recover. Given bad weather, they can suffer further. Last week, as if nature had been stirred by the crop report, tardy spring rains fell in torrents over much of the land. But in parts of the Midwest, the torrents were too great: farmers had the new danger of flood to contend with...
...Taking a slight jump to more recent times, it seems that even the late George Gershwin has fared none too well. What the "Rhapsody in Blue" was written for originally seems at the moment to be obscured by its numerous and greatly varied instrumentations, but I for one have heard it for piano, for two pianos, for piano and orchestra, for piano and organ, for organ and orchestra, for four pianos, for accordion, and in other popularized versions. And it was only this season that "Porgy and Bess," in a somewhat stilted and unGershwinian manner (a la Bennett), entered Carnegie...