Word: youngest
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...North Africa, fought in Tunisia and Sicily. On D-day he landed on Utah beach as executive officer of the 9th Infantry Division. After the war, he served as chief of staff of the famed 82nd Airborne Division, led airborne troops in the Korean war, at 43 became the youngest major general in the Army, commanded the 101st Airborne Division, served as superintendent of West Point...
...somewhat uncertain and muddled Queen, always late for appointments because she gets too involved in whatever she is doing. In the 1950s, she fell under the influence of a faith healer named Greet Hofmans. Juliana had long felt a personal guilt for the near blindness of her youngest daughter, Christina, an affliction probably caused by an attack of measles during the Queen's pregnancy. Hofmans claimed she could cure Christina, and Juliana soon depended on her for spiritual and political advice as well. It was Prince Bernhard who got rid of the faith healer. While Dutch papers remained loyally...
...King's six pretty daughters, she was the youngest and fairest. "Her skin," said Denmark's Hans Christian Andersen, "was as soft and tender as a rose petal, and her eyes were as blue as the deep sea-but like all the others, she had no feet. Her body ended in a fishtail...
Frank Gianelli, sports editor of Phoenix's biggest daily, the morning Arizona Republic (circ. 148,645), loves his job but can't stand copycats. There was a copycat in town too: Phoenix's youngest daily, the seven-month-old Evening American (26,000). Gianelli noticed that whenever the Republic printed the box score of a game between big-league baseball teams now spring-training in sunny Arizona, so did the American-same box score, same head, same type, same everything...
ALAIN JACQUET-Iolas, 15 East 55th. Paris' Pop prodigy had a painting, done when he was 22, in the Guggenheim's recent worldwide survey, and thus was its youngest artist. Here he spans centuries and continents, melding old and new with art about art: he copies the classics (Praxiteles, Botticelli, Michelangelo), jazzes them up in modern trappings, calls them camouflages. Through April...