Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that time, Traitor Esterhazy was safe in England, where he survived to an obscure old age in a boarding house in a slum quarter of London. After Dreyfus was exonerated, he served one year, retired, then came out of retirement to fight with distinction at Chemin des Dames and Verdun in World War I. He died in Paris in 1935, aged...
Chidlaw's successor: General Earle Everard Partridge, also 54, commander of the Far East Air Forces. An enlisted infantry soldier in World War I (St. Mihiel, the Argonne, Verdun), "Pat" Partridge re-enlisted after the Armistice, won an appointment from the ranks to West Point, joined the embryonic Army Air Service after graduation in 1924. A test pilot and flight instructor in the years that followed, Partridge never lost his love for flying as he rose to top command, e.g., Eighth Air Force in Europe, Fifth Air Force in Korea...
...earnings report of July 1942 shows 6 lbs. of ingots, 208 napoleons and 40,000 francs a month from assorted speculations, the Poissonards decide to pay their respects to the head of state, Marshal Petain. They bring him a box of duck eggs, and the ancient hero of Verdun mumbles: "Brave little hens of France." But soon it is time for the Bon Beurre to butter up a new power. A good year before war's end, the Poissonards are tactfully praising DeGaulle in public, and Charles-Hubert becomes a hero of the Resistance when he betrays a timid...
First in North America to use chlorpromazine on mental patients was Berlin-born Dr. Heinz Edgar Lehmann, who has one foot in the ivory-tower camp, as assistant professor of psychiatry at McGill University, and one among the red bricks, as clinical director of Verdun Protestant Hospital on Montreal's outskirts. With Dr. Gorman Hanrahan, he tried chlorpromazine first on victims of manic-depressive psychosis in the manic phase-the kind of patients who are admitted to the hospital "swinging from chandeliers that aren't there," who throw their shoes at attendants, keep other patients awake by shouting...
...Breath of Scandal. In Sumas, Wash., after Border Patrolmen Ralph Johnson and Verdun Hockett found 10 Ibs. of garlic cloves in a pack being carried by Raymond Driscoll, 18, of British Columbia, Driscoll explained: "I want to go to California to find some friends; no one in Canada likes me because I like garlic...