Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promised this miracle turned to Washington this week after a portentous visit to Britain. Arkansas-born Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell of the Corps of Engineers, boss of the Army's new Services of Supply, had made his estimate of the situation, had announced his decision. Now he sat down at his desk and went to work. The second front had become his No. 1 problem...
...visit sent a ripple of alarm through United Nations capitals. What Hitler almost certainly wanted from Mannerheim was joint German-Finnish offensive action soon, probably against the Murmansk railroad, perhaps also against Leningrad. Stockholm sources predicted both offensives in a matter of days. But the Finnish radio, broadcasting the details of the birthday celebration, failed even to whisper the name of Mannerheim's exalted guest, and a Finnish spokesman, the day after Hitler's visit, said Finland would "continue to steer a strictly independent course...
...other words, if Hitler's surprise visit was as successful as Hitler planned, the war-weary Finns could count on another, unwelcome surprise: war with their onetime best friend...
...Dickie. Last year, just before Lord Louis took over Combined Operations, he was sent to the U.S. to command the bombed aircraft carrier Illustrious, then under repair at Norfolk Navy Yard. On that visit, their U.S. friends saw a new Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten. Lord Louis no longer hid his light under a fashionable bushel. Once one of London's best-dressed women, Lady Louis was often in uniform. As Lady President of Britain's swank St. John's Ambulance Brigade, she toured the U.S. for the Red Cross. Between chores, the Mountbattens visited their daughters...
Possibly the most moving passages in The Song of Bernadette give account of the conversion of Werfel's archskeptic, one Hyacinthe de Lafite, a neighborhood patrician. In his youth, an arrogant atheist" individualist-poet, he had not bothered even to visit the newborn, crowded shrine. But now in his old age he confronts in Lourdes's hospital the full weight of disease and death, and is reborn into the mysteries of his childhood. As Lafite, a cancer pregnant in his throat and his weary mind working at its poor height, is drawn, hypnotically, nearer & nearer the iron grille...