Word: spared
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...night of pea-soup fog in January 1944, Eisenhower arrived in London as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force that would invade the Continent. Roosevelt had decided he simply could not spare Chief of Staff Marshall, the man everyone assumed would command D-day. Instead the order signed by Britain and the U.S. went to Eisenhower: "You will enter the continent of Europe and, in conjunction with the other United Nations, undertake operations aimed at the heart of Germany and the destruction of her armed forces...
...broad front might be slower, but Eisenhower, the student of logistics, could make no other choice. In their race across the Seine, the Allied units outran their stocks of gasoline, ammunition, spare parts and food. To maintain itself in the field, an infantry division required 650 tons of supplies every day. The supply planners assumed that they would not have to support any U.S. divisions north of the Seine until 120 days after D-day. But within 90 days, 16 divisions were 150 miles beyond the Seine. Both Montgomery and Bradley had to halt to let supplies catch...
...Lock: So many dignitaries, including Germany's Helmut Kohl and possibly Bill Clinton, are expected to pass though Chicago during the Cup that Rosalie Clark, city chief of protocol, says she has ordered a bunch of spare keys to the city: "I had only four left...
...Crossing (Knopf; 426 pages; $23), the centerpiece in a trilogy that began with Horses. The hero of that book was a boy ahoof in Mexico in 1950, to whom it was easy to give your heart. The Crossing moves two orphaned brothers on ( horseback across the same spare terrain, this time just before World War II. Violence, raw land, unlettered people, love, loss and a throat-slit dog have something to do with the new narrative; or you could say it is about that mean crossing from child to man, told as cleanly as you'll find...
...republics and promotes human rights. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held hearings on Nov. 18 and approved the nomination, 11 to 9, on March 22. Brown, nonetheless, is a man without job or home. Last week he and his wife and three children were camped in a friend's spare room...