Word: wreath
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here veiled and hidden in a rhyming wreath...
...Algiers monument to the dead of World War I General de Gaulle placed a wreath. He stepped back, saluted, stood in meditation. Then he turned around, his tall figure silhouetted against the white memorial, and raised his arms in a great V. The crowd roared...
...Then, with traditional Russian courtesy, he inquired about his visitor's health (ailing Joe Davies had brought to Russia a supply of dehydrated food and an intestinal specialist). The informal chat touched on Joe Davies' stop-off at Stalingrad to lay a wreath on the unknown Russian soldiers' grave. Remarked Stalin quickly: Did Mr. Davies see the graves of 96,000 Germans near...
...light cruiser Artemis. Her job: with the help of four other light cruisers and a dozen destroyers, to escort a convoy to Malta. In the Artemis' crow's nest Ordinary Seaman Quimsby, his padded perch whirling "in prodigious circles against the sky," sees a faint wreath of smoke on the Mediterranean skyline and in a few minutes, "climbing over . . . the curve of the world," come six enemy cruisers, vanguard of an Italian force of battleships and destroyers...
...weekly laurel Wreath goes to the little salad dispenser at Cowie, so vote Morgan and Nec. The citation comes as a result of here consistent, methodical, and relentless application of Chef's Salad Bowl...