Word: waughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commando show, at Bardia, Sir Walter fell in a ditch more than 62 inches deep. He verbally flayed a stalwart young officer who, mistaking him for Major Evelyn Waugh (Vile Bodies), tried to extricate him in the darkness. In Rommel's sudden thrust at Bir Hacheim in 1942, Sir Walter was captured. For 16 months he was a prisoner. Then Italy's collapse released him and gave him a chance to win his second D.S.O...
Major Randolph Churchill, only son of Britain's Prime Minister and a veteran of a previous British mission to Marshal Tito (see PRESS), flew from Italy to Yugoslavian Partisan headquarters with his good friend Major Evelyn Waugh, satirical English novelist (Decline and Fall, Put Out More Flags) and Comman-doman. As the plane neared the field it went into a dive and crashed, killing the five-man crew and two Partisan passengers. Churchill, Waugh, British War Correspondent Philip Jordan and four Russian officers escaped with minor injuries, next day were evacuated by plane to a British hospital in Italy...
Javelin throw--Won by Washburn (E); second, Lion (H); third, Waugh. Distance...
...designed for those who already know the continental alphabet. Each program will open with fifteen minutes of sending at a five-words-a-minute rate, while during the remainder of the time the speed will be gradually accelerated. The class is under the direction of Robert J. L. Waugh...
...will make no accusations," asserted Robert J. L. Waugh '43, acting technical head for the Network, "but the coincidence of the announcement of the new station and the breakdown of Network facilities cannot escape our notice." Meanwhile all the far-flung organization of the Network was thrown, into the battle against time to put the evening's programs back...