Word: waterloos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hodgepodge. Pruned of its grossest irrelevancies and chronologically reassembled, the Memoirs now sweep the reader in a hedgehopping rush from Author Napoleon's small start in Corsica to his triumph at Marengo (1800), then make a 15-year leap to his return from Elba and his downfall at Waterloo. Still lacking (because Napoleon never lived to write them) are accounts of his imperial heyday, his victories at Jena and Austerlitz, the disastrous Russian campaign...
Napoleon remained a logician, in his fashion, to the bitter end. Searching the past from St. Helena, he found a marvelously neat reason for his defeat at Waterloo. He attributed it largely to the stupidity of the Duke of Wellington, who selected a battlefield from which it was impossible to effect a retreat. Hence, Wellington & Co. had no option but to go on holding the field even after they had lost it. "Oh, strange irony of human affairs!" murmurs the exiled logician as he looks back on the blundering British...
...cruiser Juneau, which was blown up by a Jap torpedo on Nov. 14, 1942 at the southern end of "The Slot," the strip of water running northwest-southeast through the Solomon Islands. All but ten of the Juneau's crew were lost, including the five Sullivan brothers of Waterloo, Iowa...
...Chinese Master of the Universe, Celestial Emperor Chia Ch'ing, seemed singularly unimpressed by the British Mistress of the Seas. In the year of the Battle of Waterloo, he all but slammed the one door open to Britons in China-the East India Company's station at Canton. When the traders petitioned for relief, London decided to send an ambassador extraordinary to the potentate in Peking. What ensued had no parallel until last week (see below...
...Lutheran, it seems to me that it would be more logical to have the player who stops on square 49 discontinue his trip to the "Holy Father" . . . Every Protestant knows that Christ lives in the heart of the believer and not in the Vatican. DOROTHY M. COHEA Waterloo, Iowa...