Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] war she " in BNC.

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1 At the end of the Second World War she spent six months touring concentration camps in Europe , with a programme of Yiddish songs and sketches , and met hundreds of survivors of Hitler 's persecution .
2 During the Second World War she worked indefatigably for charities such as the Red Cross , which packed parcels for prisoners of war , made medical dressings for the wounded and provided canteens for the serving men and women .
3 After the end of the first World War she was active in the co-operative movement and the Labour Party , which was not common for a woman of her background in those early years .
4 After the First World War she added ice-cream to her stock-in-trade , and soon she was able to buy the shop outright .
5 Luxemburg was vigorously criticised by a number of leading Marxists at that time , such as Otto Bauer and Karl Kautsky , and while she was in prison during the First World War she wrote a reply to her critics .
6 During the First World War she volunteered for the Women 's Reserve Ambulance and twice won the Croix de Charité for gallantry for heroic rescues in Salonica .
7 Even during the much more disastrous Seven Years War she made strenuous efforts under the Duc de Choiseul to recover her lost seapower , and these were continued in the 1760s and 1770s .
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