Word: whiles
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While reading the Man of the Half-Century nominations . . . I've noticed that no one has mentioned perhaps the most important man of this century if not of the next. I am referring, of course, to oft-forgotten Uncle Sam.
"While there are assignments in which I could serve inside the Navy without fear that my loyalty to the best interests of this nation would be questioned, it could conceivably happen that other nations, having read of this public accusation, would not have the necessary respect for, and confidence in...
While building a reputation as a conservative Republican statesman on Capitol Hill, Colorado's able, lucid Gene Millikin had sadly neglected the first principle of the politicians' trade. Only a few Colorado voters knew their junior Senator personally; his political fences were sagging with disrepair. By last week...
White-haired, ill and nearly blind, Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, who had fought for Germany in two world wars, sat calmly day after day in a Hamburg concert hall which had been turned into a courtroom, while British and German lawyers argued whether he was a criminal or...
?25 from Churchill. Manstein's Junker ancestors had fought for two kaisers and one czar. Young Manstein was commissioned in the exclusive Potsdam Guards, finished World War I with the rank of captain. In World War II, he served brilliantly as chief of staff to Field Marshal Gerd von...