Word: train
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flags were waving and the youth of the nation was marching off to keep aggressors away, none of those left behind were worried about our emotional reaction to the sudden change. But now everyone is writing a book or jumping on the bandwagon with helpful suggestions on how to train the returning animal to live in his own home...
...that it already had). There were no Germans left on the west side for the French and Patch's men to clean out. One reason was evident on a three-mile stretch of road in Patch's conquered area. There, mangled to shreds, was an enemy supply train of 400 vehicles. In the wreckage lay the carcasses of hundreds of horses, the bodies of scores of Germans who had ridden the wagons in a fatal race against U.S. tanks and trucks. In that incident the Germans' plight was starkly clear: they could not fight long without enough...
...many as 3,500 prisoners and deportees were returning each day; 20,000 had already been liberated on the Western Front, 15,000 in the east. Under the eye of the Ministry of Prisoners and Deportees, they had been assembled, deloused, given pocket money and train tickets to Paris. In the Gare de l'Est a military band welcomed them with the Marseillaise, an F.F.I. Guard of Honor presented arms. Bustling officials distributed packets of food (sardines, sausage, gingerbread) and cigarets. Some of the ragged men smiled their thanks, some bowed their heads to hide their tears...
...despite one death report) in Morocco, put on a private fashion show to let Paris friends see the too-chichi gowns and hats she will wear on tour with E.N.S.A. (British U.S.O.). Her favorite getup: a "Russian" costume (see cut) featuring a white satin tunic, black velvet trimming, a train...
Died. Dorothy Campbell Kurd Howe, 61, only woman who ever won the world's four major women's golf championships: Scottish (1905, 1906, 1908), British (1909, 1911), Canadian (1910, 1912), U.S. (1909, 1910, 1924); from a fall beneath a train which she was boarding; in Yamassee...