Word: surreys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gaulle's blast had immediate effects. The French cabinet nervously asked London to postpone the official announcement. Field Marshal Montgomery, who had felt so sure of his appointment that he had prepared to resign as chief of the Imperial General Staff, was waiting in his new Surrey country house to hear whether or not he had a job. Never a popular general, Monty faced much opposition as "chairman" of Western Europe's command...
...McSWINEY Milford, Surrey England...
Died. Reginald K. Pierson, 56, chief aircraft designer for Vickers Armstrongs, Ltd., creator of the Wellington bomber, one of Britain's few offensive weapons early in World War II; after long illness; in Cranleigh, Surrey, England...
Last week, helped by English friends, Nijinsky was comfortably settled in a country hotel in Surrey. There he plays games of patience with his attendant. He likes to listen to the radio, occasionally dances to music he likes-if there is no one in the room but his wife. He still draws strange faces and spidery designs. When strangers approach, his brown eyes look hunted and wild and he grips his chair. Romola still believes that her husband has a dancing future. Says she: "Nijinsky's one wish is to go to America. There he was happy...
Meanwhile, Elizabeth was trying desperately to decide on a future bower (Windlesham Moor in Surrey was still the odds-on bet), and the gifts were piling up. at St. James's Palace. Among them...