Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...women -after 31 hours of deliberation-decided that Bridges had been a Communist and had lied when he denied it at his naturalization proceedings in 1945. For abetting the deception by serving as Bridges' naturalization witnesses, two top lieutenants in the I.L.W.U.-Vice President J. R. Robertson and German-born Henry ("The Dutchman") Schmidt-were also convicted. This week Bridges was sentenced to five years, and his companions to two years, in prison...
...Survivor. The tale of his 22 days on a raft in mid-Pacific was one of the most publicized adventures of World War II. Though his record of aerial victory in World War I (21 German planes, four observation balloons) was beaten by 22 U.S. fighter pilots in the vaster air battles of World War II, most Americans, at the mention of combat in the skies, still instinctively remembered Rickenbacker's name first. There were also thousands of grey-haired citizens who remembered him as a helmeted and goggled speed demon of the U.S. automobile race tracks...
...shot down his first German plane, an Albatross single-seater, on April 29, 1918. He dove his Nieuport out of the sun until he was less than 150 yards from his quarry before he opened fire...
...Ring. He began with a dramatic gesture. Before breakfast on his first day of command, he attacked singlehanded seven German planes and shot down two-a feat which won him the Congressional Medal of Honor...
...Champs Elysées a pert little streetwalker, old enough to remember tussles with loud and lusty liberating G.I.s in the Place Pigalle, tolerantly watched a fat and fatherly U.S. Army master sergeant padding down the street, Leica and guidebook in hand, followed at two paces by his German wife, at two paces more by his two blond children. "Man Dieu," she murmured to a grinning policeman, "how the Americans have changed...