Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maybe it was because he had already put in two years at Ohio State. The Howitzer labeled him "divinely tall and most divinely fair" and his wife, whom he calls Miss Em, still quotes it, remembering the second lieutenant who proposed to her 34 years ago in the Canal zone the first evening...
...outlines of a Fourth Reich emerged in Russian-occupied Germany last week. The Russians announced that they had organized a complete German government for their zone...
...denazification." Political parties, trade unions, and political meetings (which the Russians encouraged) were forbidden. Now that has been changed. And last week General Dwight D. Eisenhower told the press: Germans in towns and rural areas will elect local officials of their own choosing before winter. In the British zone, Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery said: "We aim at the restoration of local self-government throughout Germany on a democratic basis." But the western Allies had nothing to compare with Russia's new German government which, at least on paper, gave to some 16,000,000 Germans a greater...
...flies and filth. In the week of Aug. 18 there were 538 typhoid cases (up from 43 in July) and 50 deaths. (So far, no U.S. soldier has caught typhoid.) Last week the U.S. Army took on the immense job of immunizing all 900,000 civilians in its zone against typhoid and paratyphoid (similar to typhoid, but milder). In doing so, the U.S. hoped that the British, French and Russians, who have charge of the 2,100,000 other Berliners, would take the hint and do likewise...
Second Wave. War Correspondent Bigart was almost a prptotype of the second wave of newsmen to cover World War II. The first wave, of big-name glamour boys, mostly wound up as radio experts- or dashed into a war zone to get enough material for a quick book and lecture tour. The second wave were real war babies...