Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They did not sound nearly so grim as the Battle of Verdun, when hundreds of thou sands of men were blown to bits...
...Early in my life I found man ugly and animals seemed to me lovelier and purer; but even in them I discovered so much conflict and feeling and such ugliness that instinctively, from inner necessity, my representations became even more schematic and abstract." Shortly afterward, under the guns of Verdun, Franz Marc was killed. Last week U. S. gallerygoers found his soft, poetically gloomy animal scenes a welcome diversion from the hullabaloo of World...
...King Henry I of Brabant receiving his fractious vassals in Lohengrin, Herr Hitler did honor to the old fighter Henri Philippe Pétain and his Vice Premier Laval. The Marshal, dressed in a horizon-blue uniform like the one he wore when he was the victor of Verdun (when Adolf Hitler was a Bavarian corporal), was permitted to review some German troops, neat as an iron fence. The Führer clasped the old man's hand and said: "I am sure you did not want war, and I regret making your acquaintance under these circumstances." Then they...
...world revolution, and when we people of the democracies see what we have lost in money and life and human dignity by not sticking together, we will start our own counterrevolution to unite the world." He had been one of the last survivors in a trench at Verdun. " 'Since that day,' the little grey-haired diplomat said, 'I have had my motto: . . . There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them...
...blessing by the Pope, but it sounded strange other than as a good-will gesture toward what remains of France. Marshal Petain, 84, brought up in the Catholic faith, has never been renowned for his devotion. Once he said that he would rather be buried in the battlefield of Verdun than in the hallowed ground of a churchyard...