Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sixth Army's General Walter Krueger, victor of New Guinea and Luzon, commented caustically: "In going to 85 points they took out my first team. If they go to 80 they will take out my second team. I can't land in Japan with a third team...
...first nation to learn how to wring surrender from Japan. Now, as the principal victor, the U.S. must also...
...Victor Borge, Danish-born satirist, whose slow-drawled doubletalk went over fast in U.S. nightclubs, and sounded just slow...
...still scattered across the torn face of Asia and the Pacific. Some of the President's advisers reasoned that for this reason, if no other, the Emperor had best be left untouched. The President reasoned just the other way: the Emperor must bow specifically and unmistakably to the victor...
...newsstands went the September issue of Pic, completely redesigned. Readers of the previous dime, 50-page Pic, which was full of sleazy cheesecake, will hardly recognize the old girl in her new hairdo. The magazine has a new editor-tall, boyish Victor H. Wagner-and he has an assignment to make Pic straighten up and fly right after eight years of floundering...