Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Napoleon at his left hand. He expressed his desire for a more important place at the United Nations council table. When Willkie suggested occasional compromises for purpose of unity, De Gaulle stood up, raised his arm dramatically and said; "On matters of moral principle, I, like Jeanne d'Arc, can make no compromise...
...Slowly" meant "not without losses" (see p. 36); "surely" meant progress only at those points along the great arc of Japanese conquest (see map) where the U.S. struck early and hard...
...morning as bright as a picture post card, a Japanese carrier force of some 40 warships-three carriers, two battleships, 15 to 20 light and heavy cruisers, with destroyers, seaplane tenders, gunboats and transports-appeared north of Tulagi, approaching in a great arc spread out over almost 1,700 miles of the tropic sea. U.S. ships and U.S. planes went out to meet...
...Commandos slip or bash their way inside the steel arc of Rundstedt's defenses to feel out German techniques. But old Rundstedt can tell himself that it has been an even trade. By their raiding, the British have had to give away their own techniques: how they carry tanks on barges, what kind of weapons they favor, what proportion of artillery they use. And the British can be sure that the Germans are profiting by what they learn...
...five years Londoners have watched the cement-arc slowly growing across the river (see cut). The finished job, 80 ft. wide, with five 240-ft. spans in gleaming Portland stone, looked so fresh and handsome against their war-and weather-battered city that it seemed, like a lorgnette on a charwoman, uncomfortably elegant. The bridge's designer, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, sharing the public view, wistfully observed: "The chief feature is the underside...