Word: soldier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students at work under temporary wooden ceilings. He remarked that the sight was a "magnificent example" of Belgian indomitability. On Armistice Day in Brussels, accompanied by Belgium's Regent Prince Charles, he laid a chrysanthemum and laurel wreath on the tomb of Belgium's Unknown Soldier...
...system of division field hospitals (and hospitals at railheads and embarkation points) which remained the basic structure of military medical care through World War II. But he died in comparative obscurity, seven years after the Civil War's end. "Compared with what Letterman did for the wounded soldier," says Hawley, "the contributions of Florence Nightingale seem small...
...pity, a young Austrian soldier (Albert Lieven) takes to calling on the crippled daughter (Lilli Palmer) of a wealthy old baron (Ernest Thesiger). She falls in love; he doesn't. She confesses her passion; he gallantly flees in a panic. Her doctor"(Sir Cedric Hardwicke) warns the soldier that if the girl's hope of winning him dies, she will...
...religious leader, Wright a painter, James a general and Washington a novelist. In defense of her little game, she apparently fetches some reasons from afar: Grant's first name was Hiram (an Old Testament name) but he dropped it in favor of his middle name, Ulysses (a soldier's); Wright, like Miss Stein's favorite modern painter, Picasso, invented contraptions that gave people a new sense of being alive; James planned his novels as a good general plans an operation; Washington wrote "the great American novel" which America...
Like many a U.S. soldier, Patton approvingly noted the energy of the then well-fed German civilians. ". . . I saw five Germans, three women and two men, re-roofing a house. They were not even waiting for Lend-Lease, as would be the case in several other countries I could mention." Later Patton's regard for Nazi efficiency resulted in his loss of the Third Army command in Bavaria. He persisted to the end that he was right. In his last entry, three months before his death, he wrote: "The one thing which I could not say then, and cannot...