Word: redness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brag that it had never lost a foot of ground to the enemy or surrendered a prisoner to him. By Armistice, it had spent more time in action (191 days) than any other U. S. outfit, and when it marched up Fifth Avenue in February 1919, the green-and-red ribbon of the French Croix de Guerre floated from the staff of its regimental standard...
Despite the rainy season and heavy British air raids on their bases, the Italians attacked at four places along their 2,000-mile fiunt from the Red Sea to the Indiaa Ocean. On July 5, with artillery, bombing; planes, tanks and 3,000 Askari troops they assailed and took Kassala. Railhead for the line to Port Sudan, Kassala is the eastern gateway (Khartoum the western) for the Sudan's rich cotton plantations. It commands the valley of the Atbara River, a Nile tributary down which an army would move to strike at Egypt and Suez from the south. Last...
Mount Sinai of Mormonism is the Hill Cumorah, a red-clay glacial hump near Palmyra in western New York. On Hill Cumorah, in September 1827, the Angel Moroni handed down the Word to a strapping, 21-year-old farmer-visionary named Joseph Smith, in the form of a book written on golden plates and a Urim and Thummim (stones fastened in silver bows) which enabled him to translate it. The result of Seer Smith's labors was the Book of Mormon, which ever since has been the treasured gospel of the sect he founded, the Church of Jesus Christ...
Among refugees who arrived in North America last week were: Poet Robert William Service, short, red-faced, British-born author of many a hairy-chested ballad (The Cremation of Sam McGee, Shooting of Dan McGrew), resident of France for the past 28 years; Mrs. Somerset Maugham, wife of the British author; Baron Maurice ("Momo") de Rothschild, soft, luxury-loving French representative of the famed international banking family; Mrs. Dorothy Round Little, British ten-nist, twice winner of the Wimbledon singles, and son; three waifish guests of J. Pierpont Morgan: George Harry Vivian Smith, 6, Ann Smith, 1, Lord Primrose...
When the Tigers had finished with them, the Yankees had lost two games, had dropped to fifth place-with the Chicago White Sox as well as the Red Sox, Indians and Tigers in front of them. For the first time in ten years a Yankee team had sunk to the second division with only two months to go (last year they led the league by nine games...