Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bridgehead itself the Allies have a very strong army and superiority in both artillery and tanks. Although spells of bad weather interrupt from time to time the deliveries of supplies, the amount landed . . . substantially exceeds the schedule prescribed. ... All battles are anxious as they approach the climax, but there is no justification for pessimism...
Munch was a highly neurotic, misogynous, inward-turning artist who led the revolt of the '90s against the formal, detached, analytical approach of the French Impressionists. Munch and his followers, trying for the highest degree of personal, emotional expression, deliberately set out to step up the passionate style of Vincent van Gogh. Munch's first one-man Berlin exhibition, in 1892, contained 55 screechingly colored, cacophonously designed canvases. Munch's best-known Expressionist contemporaries were Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff...
Equipped with bulldozer blades, tractors hack out advance landing fields (see cut), push roads through the jungle and-in the Solomons-one armored giant even buried a dozen Japs in a pillbox that unprotected troops had been unable to approach (TIME, Dec. 20). Crawler tractors cleared banks, helped ford and bridge the Volturno River in Italy. Besides construction work, new-type tractors drag heavy artillery at more than 30 m.p.h.; others nudge landing barges off beaches and (with power winches attached) do all kinds of fabulous lifting and pulling jobs...
...Concluding that he could say nothing absolute about the nature of truth, but that he might be interesting on the subject of what men have thought it to be, he has just finished a history of philosophy for Simon & Schuster. A believer in scientific method as the most promising approach to truth, he is now writing a book (he thinks it is about his 30th) to prove his never-ending case. He is living in Princeton, N.J., in the cozy, old-fashioned Peacock Inn, with his good-looking young Countess (his third wife) and their six-year-old son, Conrad...
Fighters escorted the bombers all the way in and back. The escort operated in waves: first, P-38 Lightnings, then P47 Thunderbolts. Finally, long-range P-51B Mustangs (see p. 61) came in for the final approach and run over the targets...