Word: ulm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supreme disregard for carefully planned strategy. (Says he: "The battle of the Marne was not won by a committee or a plan.") At one point during the fighting, the U.S. command ordered him to fall back to a new line, evacuate Strasbourg; he flatly refused. Another time, he attacked Ulm against instructions because Napoleon had captured Ulm...
...hours later, the Danube treaty, which gives the Soviet Union control of the Danube as far upstream as Ulm, was signed by the delegates with two Ever-sharp fountain pens. The Western nations refused to sign. Ana Pauker, in high spirits, wore her twelfth new suit in 20 days (smoke-grey with white piping, New Look length). Her immediate plans: "A holiday trip on the Danube-our Danube...
...fateful mind behind the bomb was born into the world it was to change so greatly, at Ulm, Germany...
Unholy Cow. In New Ulm, Minn., police forbade truckers to park livestock near churches when congregations complained that off-key moos loused up the hymns...
Swooping down on a bridge at Dillingen, east of Ulm, the U.S. Seventh Army's 12th Armored Division ripped the fuse out of a 5,000-lb. demolition charge under the bridge, crossed the Danube River and pressed on toward Augsburg. On the road beyond Nurnberg. other units of the Seventh were more than halfway to Regensburg...