Word: vi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began last week to meet the challenge, ordered soldiers & sailors to assist some 5,000 non-strikers to unload the ships. But the strikers were not giving up just yet. The shutdown spread to Liverpool and Birkenhead. This week, at the request of Attlee's government, King George VI declared a state of national emergency...
Harold Nicolson, not only a writer (Swinburne, People and Things), but a respectable fellow (longtime M.P. and Foreign Office man), was finally picked by George VI as just the man to be the official biographer of George...
...George VI and Queen Elizabeth were in good shape, but by the skin of their teeth. On their way to the Derby they suddenly took a detour, after an ill wind had slammed down a tree on an auto ahead of their...
...Francis of Assisi sent a group of his Friars Minor to the Holy Land in 1217. When the Crusaders left Palestine, the Franciscans stayed behind, to guard the Christian shrines. In 1342 Pope Clement VI confirmed them as official guardians of the Holy Places on behalf of the Roman Catholic world.† Last week they sent out a call for help...
...England, Farran received the Distinguished Service Order from the hand of George VI for his war record, wrote about his adventures in a book called Winged Dagger, and went to live quietly at suburban Codsall, near Wolverhampton, with his parents and his three admiring brothers, Keith, Ray and Rex (also known as "Pud"). Twice Roy got letters containing a single sheet with the single Hebrew word: "Nekama!" (Revenge...