Word: budapests
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Working across the narrow Italian front he and his men were among the first to develop through-the-clouds bombing on a big scale (Belgrade and Budapest were among the principal targets). His Fifteenth went through all the ups & downs of shuttle-bombing from Russian bases, and smashed the Ploesti oil refineries in the bargain. Last year the Fifteenth acted as a strategic supporting air force for the final Russian advances...
...Paris a small, thin Jewish boy from Budapest was learning to say the Pater Noster. Since he had come to live with French foster parents he had almost for gotten the old prayer, Mole ani lefa-neha...
Fiorello La Guardia's 64-year-old sister, Gemma, turned up in Berlin, after nearly a year in a Nazi prison. She had lost track of her Hungarian-Jewish husband, arrested with her in Budapest. Her captors, said she, had explained: "Your brother is a great friend of Roosevelt. When we catch this infamous relative of yours, we'll hang him in Berlin and you'll be there to watch...
...Normandy, in southern France, on the east bank of the Rhine. This time the Germans felt the false hopes of abortive offensives, Atlantic Walls and secret weapons-and still hollower feelings after the fall of Tunis, Sicily, Naples, Rome; Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa, Bucharest; Paris, Marseilles, Antwerp; Riga, Sofia, Warsaw, Budapest; Aachen and Cracow; Frankfurt and Danzig; Essen and Vienna; Magdeburg and Nürenberg; Bremen, Milan, Munich, Berlin...
Carousel has moved Liliom from 20th-century Budapest to 19th-Century New England, and renamed the swaggering, bad-tempered barker Billy Bigelow. It has also, to its loss, reduced his swagger and taken away his Continental, scamp-like grace. But it tells much the same story and weaves much the same mood. Billy acts tough for fear of seeming tender, beats his wife lest he reveal he loves her. He commits a crime for his unborn child's sake, dies, leans carelessly against the bar of Heaven, returns to Earth for a day to try to do a good...