Word: soiled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the two giants, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., made concessions. The revolutionary Russians remembered that only their defense of the homeland on home soil had saved their country when revolutionary propaganda failed to undermine the enemy. The U.S. knew that its highly mobile armed might could go anywhere in the world, but had no wish to send its forces anywhere once their current chores were done...
...come home sent angry citizens swirling through the streets, shouting: "Down with Leopold!'' "Hang the King!" Defiant Walloons (French-speaking Belgians) threatened to bar his reentry into the country with their bodies. Socialist Premier Achille van Acker threatened to resign if King Leopold set foot on Belgian soil. There were rumors that Britain might intervene to restore Leopold to his throne...
...taking off. Some were headed overseas, like Bob Hope (on his fourth trip) and Jack Benny (on his third). Some, like Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby, were doing hospital turns at home. Others-like Fibber McGee and Molly at their Southern California ranch-were back on the soil. In their places, for the most part, were programs whose budgets were only a third as big, and whose routines were not a third as good...
...stepped down onto U.S. soil agleam with 24 stars, variously placed, all glittering: four on his shiny steel helmet, four on each shoulder loop, four on each collar tab, and four on the black butt of the automatic pistol at his hip. On the side of his helmet was the painted insigne of the armored divisions; on the front, below the stars, was the Third Army's "A"-which, in photographs, looked like a fifth star. On his chest was a quintuple corsage of campaign ribbons; on his left sleeve, five overseas bars and four wound chevrons. He wore...
Allied forces were already at the gate opening onto the "sacred soil." It was a wide gate, and Allied strategists could either keep to the right, through the islands, or develop a second lane on the left, through the Shanghai area. Both would lead to the inner fortress...