Word: von
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt, generally considered Nazi Germany's ablest military strategist, wished aloud that people would stop referring to the 1944 Ardennes counterattack as the "Rundstedt offensive." It was entirely Hitler's baby, he said...
...Washington last week to sell Argentina's case was Perón's special representative, General Carlos von der Becke. The Argentine ex-Chief of Staff, who had backed the Nazis to win World War II, now asked for U.S. arms to bring Argentina's fighting strength up to that of Lend-Leased Brazil. (His admiration for U.S. weapons was not so cynical as some supposed; the effectiveness of U.S. planes and tanks had startled him out of his pre-D-day conviction that "Europe never could be invaded.") General Eisenhower received Von der Becke courteously, looked...
...Hecht intelligently cut costs and also sharpened his effects by hiring eager newcomers and first-rate but not too expensive veterans whose capacity for hard work matched his own. Chief weakness of George Antheil's alert score is the absence of Spectre's traditional music (Carl Maria von Weber's Invitation to the Waltz). Among the film's good points: young Kirov's tormented athleticism; Viola Essen's fresh beauty; the rich, workmanlike performances of Miss Anderson and Mr. Chekhov...
Princess Sophie von Hesse could hardly be expected to face a second marriage unadorned by at least one trinket from the storied family jewel chest...
...Ralph E. von Briesen...