Word: vi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What ails Britain's George VI? All public engagements would be canceled "over a period of some months." The official bulletins had been medically vague. But at week's end it was learned that the King suffers from a variation of Buerger's disease,* mostly affecting his right foot. Other more frightening names for it: presenile gangrene, thrombo-angiitis obliterans...
...sort of dress rehearsal for the impending visit of Britain's George VI and Elizabeth, F.D.R. gave Tacho and Salvadorita the full treatment. The President (with all his Cabinet, congressional leaders and top brass) met them at Washington's Union Station, dined them, put them up at the White House...
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When the Australian cricket team visited Balmoral Castle and asked if they could take some snapshots of their royal hosts, King George VI said sure, "but you'll have to take some of your own medicine. I am a photographer, too." After a merry clicking of shutters from all sides, all the camera fans sat down...
...Napoleon, artistically the Göring of his day, sacked Italy to fill the Louvre. "We will have everything that is beautiful in Italy," he decided, "except a small number of objects at Turin and at Naples." He even forced Pope Pius VI to sign a treaty whereby the Louvre acquired (if only for a few short years) a hundred of the Vatican's greatest jewels...