Word: whitehead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thousand. In Rochester, N.Y., Mrs. Rachael Whitehead's purse containing $3,003 in cash was snatched. A detective found the bag later. Its contents...
...beaches, waited for ambushes, hunted for snipers. None was seen. German batteries four miles inland kept their peace. Of the few Germans in sight, four were drunks caught in a staff car, four others were found asleep. The few casualties were caused by mines. Wrote astonished Associated Pressman Don Whitehead: "It was so easy . . . American troops are standing with their mouths open and shaking their heads in utter amazement...
...Species, E. M. Forster's A Passage to India, Fourteen Great Detective Stories, Anatole France's Penguin Island, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Odyssey, William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience, Ring Lardner's Collected Short Stories, The Philosophy of Plato, Alfred North Whitehead's Introduction to Mathematics. Not included: the Bible ("We assume you have ... or ... can easily acquire...
...control over central New Guinea, the Jap took the worst licking he has taken yet in the air. He had massed a strong force along the 35-mile-long chain of airfields at Wewak. Over this nest U.S. planes roared. Said Kenney's deputy, Major General Ennis C. Whitehead: "The attacks will continue until either the Jap's or our air force is wiped out." After four days of onslaughts by heavy, high-flying bombers and tree-shaving B-25s, the Jap force, desperately reinforced by planes from Rabaul and Kavieng, was wiped out. By week...
...back. Reserves were thrown in; for the first time in Sicily, the whole 1st Division was engaged at once. Every night the Americans advanced, every morning the Germans counterattacked, driving the Americans back down the slopes before Troina. On the evening of the fifth day A.P.'s Donald Whitehead and I arrived on the scene...