Word: xa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father, became his right-hand woman. They traveled together in Italy, Russia and the U.S., where Laval hobnobbed with Herbert Hoover at the White House. Through daughter Jose, Laval reached into French aristocracy. Jose married young Rene de Chambrun, son of the onetime French Ambassador to Italy, descendant of Xa-fayette, nephew by marriage of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Through the De Chambruns, Laval met Marshal Petain. Laval eventually rose so high as to be made a Papal Count...
...loading a ship, as in packing a trunk, the heaviest cargo is usually put in the bottom. But wartime cargoes are loaded not by common sense but by code. Washington supplies a code breakdown with instructions on where to stow each item. If orders put Item XA in the bottom hold, there Item XA must go, whether it turns out on arrival to be eggs, airplanes or cigarets...