Word: ballooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Churchill were the Hon. Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a man whose refrigerated attitude somewhat resembles Mr. Welles's; Lord Cherwell, the Prime Minister's science adviser, recently knighted (June 12), a pioneer advocate of the balloon barrage, a vegetarian chum who constantly beats Churchill at Monopoly; Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Minister of Supply; General Sir John Greer Dill, chief of the British Army's Imperial Staff; Sir Wilfrid Rhodes Freeman, Vice Chief of the Air Staff; Admiral of the Fleet Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound...
Without even brushing his hands, Mr. Welles then produced a balloon from his pocket-a trial balloon for a new (and New Deal) League of Nations after the war. Said he: "At the end of the last war, a great President of the United States gave his life ... to further ... the splendid vision of ... an ordered world, governed by law. ... I am unalterably convinced: First, that the abolition of offensive armaments . . . can only be undertaken through some rigid form of international . . . control . . . and, second, that no peace . . . would be valid or lasting unless it established . . . the natural rights...
...other documentaries, except a few which use professional actors to play a specific incident (e.g., a re-enacted journey to Dunkirk and back in a small motor-boat), faithfully follow the method of Spring Offensive. One, Squadron 992, takes a balloon-barrage crew through its organization and training to its ultimate destination in Scotland to protect the Firth of Forth Bridge. Another, Village School, is a heart-warming account of a day in the life of a country schoolteacher plagued with an overload of local and evacuee pupils...
There is a sense of the sanctity of the British home in the way a housewife holds the military at bay while remarking incredulously to her husband inside: "Here's a man wants to put a balloon in the back yard." And there is a suspicion of an ancient animosity in a Scottish soldier's reply to the hungry query of his newly-arrived comrades from London: "No. No haggis. They're breedin...
work. The camera communicates their state of mind in some of Major Barbara's unhappy sequences. It took 17 days to make a single shot of London's embattled Tower Bridge, and the completed sequence shows part of London's balloon barrage hovering in the sky. Once, when the company returned to complete a sequence begun on a street in London's East End, the houses had disappeared...