Word: boulevard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be out of place and in bad taste-on the contrary, we beg you to convey our best wishes to the boys, and the best of luck. We need lots of the same while struggling with Jack Frost-building an airport north of the General's boulevard terminus...
...plan feverishly, prodded by German threats, complaints and taunts that France had not earned "the right to a happy future in Hitler's Europe." But the response was bad. Workers disappeared just before they were to entrain for Germany. A bomb destroyed the Lyon recruiting offices on the Boulevard Garibaldi. At least ten officials of the Vichy Labor Ministry resigned in protest and despair. Workers in the big Renault plant near Paris struck in protest against the forced recruiting. They were idle for three hours, until the Germans threatened to shoot 50 hostages in the factory courtyard. Then they...
...early evening Albert Clément and his wife left the office of Le Cri du Peuple on the Rue Vivienne and started toward the boulevard. A small bicyclist, standing near by in a dark blue beret and shirt, suddenly pushed his wheel into the Cléments and fired four pistol shots, killing M. Clément and wounding his wife...
...them, yes, I saw their unbreathing armies marching against the Capitol in ranks that filled the boulevard from curb to curb...
...address a message for them all to their Commander in Chief: "Dear Mr. Roosevelt: Our P-40 is full of holes. Please send us a new one." In Washington Congress proposed a Congressional Medal of Honor for Douglas MacArthur, considered naming a projected TVA dam and a Washington boulevard (now Conduit Road) in his honor...