Word: slim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unofficial History, by Field Marshal the Viscount Slim. A leathery British general gallantly pays tribute to the grit and gusto of friends and enemies alike in these stirring memoirs of this century's great wars...
Unofficial History, by Field Marshal the Viscount Slim. The briskly written memoirs of a British general who fought in both World Wars and enjoyed many minor skirmishes in between...
Unofficial History, by Field Marshal the Viscount Slim. The briskly written memoirs of a British general who fought in both World Wars and enjoyed many minor skirmishes in between...
...amity, Charles de Gaulle has believed throughout most of his life that Frenchman and German could never bridge their temperamental differences-let alone lay foundations for Europe's closest economic, political and military entente. In 1934, while a captain attached to the Defense Ministry, De Gaulle wrote a slim volum, The Army of the Future, which mirrored the conviction of most Frenchmen that the traditional hostility between France and Germany was "in the nature of things." The border between the two countries, wrote De Gaulle, "is an open wound; the wind that sweeps it is laden with ulterior motives...
Better Billing. Son of a Roman baker, Stuarti came to the U.S. when he was 13, later survived the wartime torpedoing of a Liberty ship before he settled down to a diet of slim pickings on Broadway-supporting roles and choruses. He had no better luck touring small nightclubs and occasionally appearing on television. He seemed to hit bottom in 1960 when he recorded a slow-selling album titled A Tribute to Mario Lanza, with his own name printed in minuscule letters across the bottom of the jacket. Stuarti's rising fortunes, as a matter of fact...