Word: die
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Conquer or Die." While the French fought north of Laon and St. Quentin with herds of tanks and massed 75s (see p. 25) to stem the German swing-the general commanding the French II Army led its tank counterattack in person-history stood still for France and Great Britain. The world's battle was to decide whether Adolf Hitler's apocalypse really showed him the future of Western civilization "for the next 1,000 years." At least 80 German infantry divisions were in it and ten of twelve Nazi mechanized divisions. At least 5,000 planes with crosses...
...Horace Wells did not have a patient die under an anesthetic...
Schoolboy Guy de Liederkirche, 13. was not so lucky: a bomb picked him out as Brussels' first child to die. The body was taken to his school for a memorial service of his schoolmates. Salvos blasted the airfields at Nivelles and St. Trond. south and east of Brussels, followed by parachutists. Louvain (the university town), Malines, Hasselt, Verviers were other targets. So were Antwerp and even Ostend, over...
...Hungarian March, "Rakoczy"Berlioz *Ballet Suite Rameau-Motti Minuet from "Platee"--Musette Tambourin from "Fetes d'Hebe" *Scherzo from Octet Mendelssohn *Prelude to "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Wagner *Piano Concerto to No. 2, in F minor Chopin Soloist: ELIZABETH TRAVIS *"Show Boat," Selection Kern *Fugato on a Well-Known Theme McBride "Thunder and Lighting," Polka Strauss
WASHINGTON--The 1941 national defense budget, already the greatest in the nation's peace-time history, tonight became the No. 1 problem of Congress as legislators paused in their plunge toward sine die adjournment to ponder the consequences of the Nazi invasion of the Low Countries...