Word: von
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg had fought with Rommel in Africa, lost his left arm and two fingers of his right hand there. But he could still do staff work. Above all, he could still carry a briefcase. On July 20, 1944, he carried a briefcase into a conference at the Führer's field headquarters in East Prussia. He put it down close to the Führer-with a powerful little bomb inside...
...Thayer; shot put--J. Fisher, P. Garland, W. Jackson, R. M. Miller, M. Shatuck, A. Wheeler; hammer throw--S. Felton, J. Fisher, J. Thorndike, P. Zeigler; discus throw--T. Cameron, S. Felton, J. Fisher, P. Garland, W. Jackson; javelin throw--J. Holbrook, E. Kaelber, F. Powers, D. Trimble, M. Von Saltza...
...three-man committee, headed by Otto von Meving 2nd 1G, will compile the results of tonight's discussion, which the United Nations Council will publish...
...Karl von Clausewitz had said, "Public opinion is won through great victories and the occupation of the enemy's capital." The fall of Yenan was no great victory, but it would have a marked effect on Chinese opinion, strengthen confidence in Chiang's ultimate victory...
Laying much of the blame for the current food shortage at the feet of the Nazis, who during the occupation disrupted the nation's economy, Miss Von Lieben stated that the American occupation forces, as well as English, Russian and U.N. sources are contributing large quantities of foodstuffs to infertile, mountainous Austria...