Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kali." U.S. Military Mission Chief Lieut. General James Van Fleet was at the front to see how things were going. As he jeeped down one mountain road, with Greek Chief of Staff Demetrios Yantzis, a wizened peasant crone in a roadside wheatfield called out "Ora kali" (May the hour be with...
...rebels, instead of melting away under attack to pop up elsewhere, were standing firm. But the Greek army had captured peaks on both sides of Markos' stronghold area, and were beginning to draw the neck strings of the bag in which they hoped to catch him. Said Van Fleet: "We are trying to find a soft spot in the guerrilla lines." The general's unconscious "we" was well-chosen: Coronet was the big test of what the Greeks could do with the help of Harry Truman's Doctrine...
...Facts. Most of all, say the docents, the public is "bewildered by the absence of facts" in such paintings. Comparatively naturalistic artists such as Cézanne and Van Gogh get a worshipfully warm reception, the museum says, and for Salvador Dali, whose surrealism depends on meticulous realism, "the audience has an especial place in its heart." Even Picasso is admired for his early "blue period" and neo-classical pictures...
First, after breezing through two easy opponents, he ran into a stone wall in the form of Welby Van Horn. After five grueling sets, Big Jake wobbled to the marquee none too pleased about his narrow victory: "My racket felt like a baseball bat." Two days later he squared off against ex-Champion Don Budge. Again Big Jake was carried to five sets. Budge's famous backhand was never better, but at 33, his stamina was not so good. Despite all the tea and sugar he consumed, Budge collapsed in the fifth set, won only one point...
Britain's bookish radical, Harold J. (for Joseph) Laski has spent most of his 54 years looking at the world through pink spectacles. Born in Manchester of Hungarian immigrant parents, he looks like a young Henry Van Dyke but often talks like poor Poll with elephantiasis...