Word: armorers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of these chinks in the Western armor were exaggerated. Others were real. The Atlantic pact was a crashing diplomatic defeat for world Communism, but of itself it would not strike at the roots of Communist power nor guarantee the anti-Communist world against attacks. Rather, the pact was a recognition of danger and a resolution to build common defenses. The very achievement of an Atlantic pact underlined the failure to build an Asiatic defense against Communism...
...Winkled Guns. When the hill is finally taken, and the battalion is reduced to less than a company, the brigadier in command says cheerily: "I've got a job for you . . . We want to get our armor on the move . . . but they're held up until we can get infantry to winkle the guns out." When the winkling is done, all that is left is "a pair of boots protruding from a roadside ditch; a body blackened and bent like a chicken burnt in a stove; a face pressed into the dirt; a hand reaching...
...play concerns a young man who escapes from his humdrum life by inventing wonderful tales about himself. This gains for him the prestige he craves, ("I should have been a knight in shining armor"), but he soon finds it difficult to remember when he is lying and when he is not. He is a Walter Mitty of action; a Christy Mahon without honor...
...Stanley Cup, hockey's World Series, Ranger Goalie Lome Chabot was hit in the eye by a flying puck. Manager Lester Patrick, who was 44, had quit the ice two years before, and had never played goal in his life, got into Chabot's sweaty armor and skates. He let only one puck get past him, held on against a furious Montreal Maroons' attack until Boucher scored the winning Ranger goal...
...heard her heavenly voices, as a farm girl at Domremy, to her anguished death at the stake. At times the meticulous history lesson dulls the drama. The storming of Orleans is supposedly as historically correct as research could make it, down to the last split skull and link of armor; but on film it adds up to noisy and not altogether convincing movie battle. Once the picture loses sight of the fact that it is Joan's personal story, she becomes a lifeless symbol in a pageant...