Word: crystalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school students and professors, the Peoria convention drowsed and listened to worthy speeches by Representative Will Rogers Jr., ex-Ambassador William Bullitt, Federal Union's President Streit. Peoria's Hotel Père Marquette was suitably draped in red-white-&-blue bunting. The LaSalle Room's crystal chandeliers were strung with bouquets of United Nations flags. There were stiff little luncheons with entertainment by Peoria's best singing talent. Seven girls in long square-necked dinner gowns, sang a "Hymn of Peace." Prizes were awarded for an organizational song, a slogan (winner: "Union Now-a Last...
Military Strategy. "Any campaign Mountbatten leads from India cannot be a decisive blow at the Japs [and] can hardly get more decisive results than MacArthur's present campaign. . . . It's as clear as crystal that the great blow must come far nearer to the Japanese islands...
...crystal-clear," the U.S. Admiral said, "that we will win the war, but it is not yet clear just when it will end. I am realistic enough to believe it will be over long before the gloomy prediction...
George VI of England gave "the steel-hearted citizens of Stalingrad" a four-foot, two-handed sword with a double-edged blade, a chased silver crosspiece, a grip wrapped in 18-carat gold wire, a pommel of rock crystal...
...miles from Britain, 4,100 miles from the U.S., these officers must work at least three months ahead of battle schedules. At least once they vetoed an invasion plan because the supplies could not be promised in time. Says Brigadier Lewis: "Someone just has to sit with a crystal ball and try to contact the future...