Word: unexpectedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshal Ivan Konev's army fought its way across the Bug, raced over 60 muddy miles in two days, crossed the Dniester with scarcely a change in pace. Said a British newsman in Moscow of ex-Lumberjack Konev: "He has done the unexpected, the unbelievable, the impossible."
Drastic Neighbor. This policy was successful during the period of U.S. "big-stick" intervention in Latin American affairs. But the Good Neighbor Policy was a setback. Argentinians watched "one republic after another being won over to Washington by the simple device of a Pan American policy founded on sincerity. . . . It...
Heat, Sin and Revival. Strange Fruit tells of Nonnie Anderson, a tall, slender, black-eyed, gentle Negro girl who has been in love with Tracy Deen, the son of Maxwell's doctor, since she was six years old. Now, when he is home from the war, with his college...
"Resume the Advance." Two days after the landing, MacArthur announced from his headquarters that the initial operation had been a "reconnaissance in force" but that because of its unexpected success it was now "being developed into complete occupation." Reinforcements were rushed to Momote airfield-just in time to stop the...
As MacArthur's unexpected swoop into the Admiralty Islands last week tightened a noose around the Bismarck Archipelago (see map), attention was fixed on a Jap-held prize on the northern tip of New Britain. Rabaul, a great naval and air base, only 830 miles from Truk, may be...