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Word: martini (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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Perhaps as he began his last journey, he remembered the two epitaphs he had seen at Ferrara on another journey and whose "modesty" he had found "deeply moving": Said one: Martini Luigi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To the Dark Tower | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Silver-haired, trim (about 175 lb., 5 ft. 10 in.), Andy Andrews looks the general. He golfs. He still likes to fly, does it well. He gambles (for enough to make it profitable fun). He is a discriminating Martini sipper (who says that he has yet to find a properly mixed Martini). He likes to take his friends on cocktail-picnic parties. In short, he has unusual social adaptability joined to his forthright military drive. With modesty and patience, he has survived a difficult, frustrated tour as commander of the Caribbean Air Forces under his predecessor in the top command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: General of the Caribbean | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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