Word: vals
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Next to go was General ("of the Army for War Merit") Cesare Maria de' Vecchi, Conte di Val Cismon, 56, mighty-mustached Governor of the Dodecanese Islands. One of the original Fascist quad-rumvir- of the 1922 March on Rome, De' Vecchi has even been mentioned as successor to II Duce, but he rated as an administrator rather than a soldier. In his stead, Mussolini appointed lean, hard-boiled General Ettore Bastico, 64, a veteran of the 1911 war with Turkey in which the islands were acquired, veteran also of World War I, Ethiopia, the Spanish Civil...
When Mr. Roosevelt made this observation, he and Henry Wallace were in shirtsleeves, sitting side by side in the President's shiny blue Ford. The President had driven on to the lawn of his wife's Val-Kill cottage, where she had 800 neighboring Democratic women to tea. Mr. Roosevelt informed the ladies that he and Henry Wallace were going to argue "for the next four years" about the relative merits of Dutchess County corn and Iowa corn. Then he drove away. It was his only political meeting of the week...
Invasion: Preview and Prevention The last time that an enemy (William the Conqueror) successfully invaded Great Britain, he assembled 700 transports (open barges) at St. Valéry-sur-Somme, waited for a fair wind, embarked an Army of 5,000 men, including 2,000 mobile armored units (mounted knights and their squires), sailed overnight across the English Channel (70 miles) and landed at Pevensey next morning. Immediately he marched to the nearest big city (Hastings), which he started fortifying (building a castle). The British (under King Harold of Wessex), though forewarned, had been drawn away by another invader...