Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hospitals were robot-bombed. A nurse in one said she was awakened by the approach of something "like a ball of fire in the sky." Seconds later "there was a terrific explosion and the whole place seemed to blow up. . . . When I got myself free I found a part of the home demolished. I heard cries of nurses trapped under the debris. We got some of them free by clearing away the wreckage with our hands...
...only person with Keats when he died. On Feb. 24, 1821, Severn wrote in his diary, which is included in Against Oblivion: "He is gone. He died with the most perfect ease. He seemed to go to sleep. On the 23rd, Friday, at half-past four, the approach of death came on. 'Severn- I - lift me up for I am dying. I shall die easy. Don't be frightened! Thank God it has come...
...West Pointer. When their C-47 troop carrier took off on Dday, a grimy mechanic waved and grinned. "Them poor goddam krauts," said he. The Indians' D-day assignment was tough enough to match their blood lust- dropping on the peninsula behind Cherbourg and blowing up approach roads to airfields where later paratroopers would land. Word trickled back to their base last week that at least some of them were still alive-and therefore, of course, still fighting...
...shelved pending clarity from the Allied side. For those plans all hinge on Allied action in both the military and the economic spheres, and the French just do not know what action in either sphere is going to be. Such indications as they have only intensify their misgivings, which approach desperation. . . . Neither in London nor in Washington, to judge by all evidence available here, is there anything like an adequate appreciation of the plight of France...
Says Dr. Deutsch: "Woman's intellectuality is to a large extent paid for by the loss of valuable feminine qualities. . . . Everything relating to exploration and cognition, all the forms and kinds of human cultural aspiration that require a strictly objective approach, are with few exceptions the domain of the masculine intellect, or man's spiritual power, against which women can rarely compete. . . . The intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking...