Word: seventeenth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seventeenth-Century housewives, ignorant of a new beverage called "tea," served the leaves with sugar or syrup, threw away the liquid...
Melitopol. Himself a veteran of Stalingrad, Tolbukhin had under him many a Stalingrad veteran-tough and fire-tested. To these men, fate seemed kind, for in Melitopol there were Germans they hated most: units of the Sixth Army, destroyed at Stalingrad and now resurrected with new blood; the Seventeenth Army, responsible for atrocities in the Caucasus...
Three hundred and twenty-five student Chaplains of the Seventeenth Class will be graduated from the U. S. Army Chaplain School tomorrow morning, with exercises on the Cambridge Common and in Sanders Theatre...
...story is that of Francie Nolan from her twelfth to her seventeenth year in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn before and during World War I. The book has most of the time-tested character types and situations in fiction: Katie, the hardworking, self-sacrificing mother; Johnny, the lovably alcoholic, singing-waiter father; Francie, the good, book-loving slum child who yearns to be a writer; Neeley, her little brother; and an assortment of incredible relatives, including a peasant grandmother who speaks with the wisdom of Confucius and the force of the King James Version...
...were risky against European armies. Finally, Bazaine saw with misgivings the Prussian invention of the needle gun, with its immense superiority of fire power. His conclusion: for France defensive war is better than offensive war. "It is better," he said, "to conduct operations systematically (i.e., defensively], as in the Seventeenth Century." "That delusion," says Author Guedalla, "was to cost France the loss of a second...