Word: journey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secondary outcome of peace in the North last week was a journey undertaken by Adolf Hitler down to Brennero, Italy to talk more peace and more war with his ambiguous Fascist partner. For Germany the Russian victory looked fine. Her Swedish iron ore was safe. Her northern flank was shielded. Her prestige was generally conceded upped. Russia was now free. The Allies and their unfulfilled promises were fair bait for sarcasm...
...Ribbentrop speeding toward the Italian frontier a wireless operator handed a communique just issued by the British Foreign Office. It read: "The British Government has decided to release 13 ships detained in recent days together with their cargoes of coal. Italian ships which have not already started their return journey with cargoes of coal will leave the ports in which they are at present in ballast (unladen) and no further Italian cargo steamers will be sent subsequently to those ports to load coal." Later came reports that British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax and Italian Ambassador Giuseppe Bastianini had not only...
Other Freshmen who will journey to New Haven are Hal Stubbs, Frank Webster, Brad Patterson, Fred Whoriskey, Jay Ach, Hal Dearing, Bob Emerson, Jack Germain, Johnny Murphy, Bill Stires, John Allyn, and Manager Kiely...
Switzerland. In a hotel in Zurich the party paused midway on the journey from Rome to Berlin. Hearty was the greeting from the Swiss, who made no secret of their fear for the next few months-with mud drying on the far bank of the Rhine, with sunlight swallowing the Alpine Valley fogs, with trim fighting planes, wing-marked with a white cross on a red field, regularly droning overhead, with the Federal Council of seven Swiss elder statesmen quietly upping the army from 150,000 to 500,000 in preparation for good weather. Hearty and well-publicized was Sumner...
Paid $15,000 for his Columbus, Irving started off in 1828 on his famous journey through Andalusia, Spain's South, gathering material for and writing on The Conquest of Granada and The Alhambra. Traveling through wild mountains with a Russian prince for companion, he met contrabandistas, looked for bandits, was feted by village dancers with red roses in their hair. When an amused Spanish governor told him he could live in the huge old Moorish palace of the Alhambra, Irving was delighted. He moved in and stayed, imagining the heroic past and only slightly disconcerted by the howls...