Word: waterlooed
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...Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, the Battle of Britain might have to be won on the ploughed fields of an island traditionally never more than a hop, skip & amp; a jump ahead of starvation. Into the fields last week Britain sent all her schoolchildren, rich & poor alike. The farming problem was acute...
...blinked, ducked in terror when photographers' flashlights blazed in her face. With imperial MacArthurian self-possession, Arthur marched with his mother through the generals and the crowd to a car where 6-ft. 3-in. Sergeant Donald Broe, of Waterloo, Ia., proudly waited to drive the General behind the four-starred flag on the hood. But the General stayed behind, followed later in a car with the two-starred flag of a major general. In the crowd, General MacArthur spotted Press Officer Lloyd Lehrbas, who covered Washington affairs for the Associated Press when MacArthur was Chief of Staff...
...Waterloo, Iowa, five Sullivan brothers signed up together in the Naval Reserve...
Died. Arthur Charles Wellesley, 65, Fifth Duke of Wellington, great-grandson of the "Iron Duke"; of pneumonia; in London. Among the special privileges he inherited from Waterloo's hero: the right to keep his hat on in the presence of the King of Spain...
Here if anywhere was Britain's second front to help the Russians. Here if anywhere was Britain's chance to knock the Eyeties out of the war. Churchill and his Cabinet, after spouting about a Blenheim and a Waterloo, would very likely stand or fall by what happened. Failure here would put the whole Empire into an awful funk. Even the U.S. might shy back out if Britain came another cropper here. The Imperial General Staff, shaken around on the eve of this attack (see p. 22), would be in a pretty bad stew to find a next...