Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Van Nuys, Calif...
George Patton was sitting in his headquarters van, his high-polished cavalry boots cocked on the glass top of his desk, his long-fingered hands relaxed in his lap. He listened now & then over his command radio to battle reports. They were good. His tankmen were rampaging around, deep in Germany, on the loose and on the prowl, raiding and rolling on. Patton could turn off the radio and turn on one of his favorite topics of conversation: the Civil War battle of Fredericksburg. Willie, the General's white bull terrier, snuffed sleepily...
...Mark Van Doren, Pulitzer Prize poet: "War could be beautiful to Homer and Shakespeare because it could be tragic. It has ceased to be that. ... I suspect any war poet now who says he knows what the current calamity means-including the one who says it means nothing...
...Germany at the time of the famed Reichstag fire trial in 1933, and the Nazis tried to make him a scapegoat, along with dullard Marinus Van der Lubbe and German Communist Ernst Torgler. But they found Dimitroff too hot to handle. The flimsy case against him collapsed. Once again Moscow intervened, conferred Russian citizenship on the Bulgarian and obtained his release, then sent a plane to whisk him to his new home. He was hailed as a hero. Lenin's widow and sister sent him flowers. "I am a soldier of the revolution," Dimitroff said, "and will fight where...
...help satisfy it, the Government and the Council on Books in Wartime embarked early in 1943 on a mass production publishing venture. Sponsored and paid for (average cost: 6? a volume) by the Army and Navy, Editions for the Armed Services has turned out, under the management of Philip Van Doren Stern, over 40 million copies of 500 books. To fit existing presses as well as G.I. pockets, the books are made in two sizes: half that of a standard digest-size magazine, and half that of a pulp magazine. Bound like pocket bird guides, they are printed in double...