Word: waterloos
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...Negerkind named Roswitha Kubik. Louis Armstrong and his band raced over from a Stuttgart concert to put on a special Saturday afternoon party for Hoosman's Munich children. Last week Munich's Lord Mayor Thomas Wimmer promised Hoosman official support for "your great cause." Al Hoosman of Waterloo, Iowa, a man with a cause, as well as an itch to write verse, combined his two interests...
...British have not been happy to see Germany replace them recently as Europe's No. 1 trading power. A spate of war movies, a new rash of generals' memoirs and war-adventure tales, the unearthing last week of a live German bomb beside the Thames near .Waterloo Station, all keep alive old memories. Some might acknowledge that the moment was not propitious for old grudges, but the Tory Telegraph, for one, was adamant: "Dr. Adenauer's verbal explosion, tactless as it may seem, has the virtue of forcing both countries to face unwelcome truths while there...
...development (along with his colleagues) of the "problem method," which stresses use of original sources instead of historical texts. Sample Mendenhall problem, fed to one class of freshmen: was the famous mot de Cam-bronne that French General Pierre Cam-bronne uttered near the end of the Battle of Waterloo really "The old guard dies, but never surrenders"-or was it simply "Merde!"? The frosh dutifully turned up evidence to back both mots...
...there was not much, but there were "watermen" to bring hot and cold water along miles of corridors, watchmen to pace the battlements by night, and a "gong man," who served as a perambulating clock. There was even an ancient serving-maid who was born before the Battle of Waterloo. (She was always shown to visitors...
...blithe spirits, 17-year-old James T. Sullivan of Waterloo, Iowa lifted his right hand to take the oath of allegiance required of Navy enlistees, thereby followed in the footsteps of his father Albert and four uncles (George, Francis, Madison and Joseph) who as the Fighting Sullivans served together as bluejackets during World War II, died together when the cruiser Juneau was torpedoed near Guadalcanal...