Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Prague doctors feel that Ellis condition precludes any return to the United States for at least six months, they plan to speed his recovery by placing him in a Swiss sanatorium for the winter...
...million American aid-to-Greece program is failing. If you sit around Athens, close your eyes to everything but the abundant food in de luxe restaurants, watch new American cars roll down the streets, look into shop windows filled with American canned goods, Italian woolens and Swiss watches, you can pretend it is not failing. But once you get outside Athens, you realize that the situation is the worst it has been since October 1944 when the Germans left. The Greek Government, the high command, the Army and the people are carrying out a sort of mass psychological "sitdown strike...
...days of the railroad builders, U.S. readers got St. Elmo and Under Two Flags. When the clipper ships were sailing to China, one of the popular novels was The Scarlet Letter. When the wagon trains were going over South Pass, it was Swiss Family Robinson. The year before Japan fell, it was Forever Amber...
...noodles and pig's liver, met the tailgunner (picked up by another member of the local underground) and experienced their first bombing: some P-47s dive-bombed a nearby bridge. As days went by, Chappuis & Co. were moved from house to house, and village to village, towards the Swiss frontier. Once they walked right past a German sentry, without being detected. They were dressed in shawls and farmer hats-but they were still wearing G.I. shoes...
...large ham; some imported canned peanuts, hamburger and chile con carne; Dolan's butter and fat ration for the week; all cigars and cigarettes; some French and Swiss chocolate (he scorned some American Hershey bars); several bottles of rye and Noilly Prat vermouth; some razor blades; eight suits; pajamas, shirts; two dozen towels, bed sheets; portable typewriters, clocks; and all of Dolan's soap. He wasted no time on the flat's expensive furniture, paintings and silver...