Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...favorite theme is the Briton's refusal to let even catastrophe disturb his stout routine. In a club a testy gentleman behind whose favorite armchair a bomb has just torn a gaping hole in floor and ceiling reproves an anxious flunkey: "I'm perfectly aware of that." A lady, calmly knitting in the shelter of the two walls of her house that still stand, replies to a curious passerby: "Yes, since 1940. I wasn't going to let Hitler crow that...
...example. He is the author of two important books-The War at Sea ("a masterly work" said The Nation) and America's Navy in World War II (The New Republic's reviewer called it "as fine a piece of current history as I have ever read"). No armchair admiral, he knows sea warfare firsthand-steamed up to Jap-held Vella Lavella to help rescue the cruiser Helena's survivors after the Battle of Kula Gulf - was one of the first five white men to reach Munda airport (he got there 24 hours before our troops marched...
Picasso still experimented with his own brand of cubism, and distorted figure painting. Woman in Blue Waist showed a seated figure against soft green. Woman in Armchair added to Picasso's cubism a pinwheel-and-tinsel fantasy...
...Fifth Army advance been slowed down to the same grudging ad vance of hill to hill - when a breakthrough of the Gothic Line has definitely been claimed? That is the question being heard from armchair strategists and also from front-line fighters who could not help but be amazed when they read: Fifth Army Cracks Gothic Line Defenses." Rivers & Rain. While the controversy stirred the rear, G.Ls in the front struggled patiently with the tenacious Ger mans. The Americans fell back before a counterattack, riposted to regain lost ground and more. By week's end, Raticosa Pass was captured...
...Canadians take the main role. The raid was commanded from a destroyer by Major General John Hamilton ("Ham") Roberts (who is now in charge of Canadian reinforcements flowing in & out of Britain). The raid won Roberts a D.S.O., but both he and McNaughton had to listen to cries from armchair critics that it had been botched. Actually, the Canadians paid most of the price for the lessons of invasion which the Allies had to learn the hard way. The education paid off in the Mediterranean and Normandy...