Word: unsung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hall made just two points, Back only five-while an unsung Navy plebe, left-handed Perry Nelson, stole the show. At halftime, Nelson had collected 15 points and his team led 25-to-24. Army, as usual, came back strong in the second half, got its fast-breaking offense into high gear. Although Navy surged back after losing Nelson on personal fouls, Army had the aggressive confidence to squeak through...
...King's liking for motorcars is one of his bonds with his remarkable British mentor, Harry St. John B. Philby, an unsung "Lawrence of Arabia" who joined Ibn Saud during World War I, turned Moslem afterward, got the Arabian agency for Fords, and has supplied the King with counsel and motorcars ever since. St. John (rhymes with Injun) Philby, quietly unobtrusive amid the splendors of the palace and court at Riyadh, has had much to do with Ibn Saud's rise in the Arab world...
...White Russian Army, aimed at Berlin. Zhukov's technique was based on three waves of attack: 1) the tanks and enough men and gasoline trucks to keep them going; 2) mobile infantry, to hold the sides of the wedge against counterattack; 3) massed infantry to do the bloody, unsung job of mopping up the enemy...
...runways, Clark was the greatest air base in the Southwest Pacific. The Japanese had fortified 30 caves for its defense, yet they abandoned these, and confined their resistance to artillery fire from other caves in nearby hills. There were only sharp local actions, in which men died, honored but unsung. There had been as yet no major Jap stand on the road to Manila. That goal was almost within range of MacArthur's field glasses...
Thus, unwept, unhonored and unsung, died Vichy France...