Word: won
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Gave Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd a new special medal-a gold star to be attached to the Distinguished Service Medal he was awarded in 1927 for flying the Atlantic. Byrd, owner of all U. S. Government medals, had to unpin several to make room for the new star, won for his Antarctic surveys...
Said Margie: "A little romance and sentiment help to while away a man's lonely hours. I only wish I could do more for our soldiers. . . . I do hope the generals won't give my picture to married men. I don't want anybody to get the wrong idea...
...British Empire: Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand. Foreign Minister Matsuoka believed Japan could gamble on Germany's winning the war before the U. S. was ready, willing, or able to join up against the Axis in World War II. After two weeks of argument he won over Prince Konoye and the Emperor...
...white flag and a tricolor. They were greeted by gunfire, and two aides were wounded. General de Gaulle boarded his flagship and signaled an ultimatum. Dakar rejected it. From Vichy, Minister of the Navy Admiral Jean Darlan wired: "Remember the words of Joan of Arc, that 'peace is won only at the point of a lance...
...school-teacher involve themselves in endless, fantastic arguments. A two-for-a-nickel marquis, complete with gloves and plus-fours, drops into town now and then from his chateau, to have a quick one with the boys at the "Club." There are also plenty of village dim-wits, who won't speak to one another because their parents and grandparents wouldn't either, because their parents disagreed about the shade trees in the back yard. Even the popular conception of French love-making gets its turn when the backer's wife and a handsome young shepherd start warming...