Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Katie" and the great grandmother of "God Bless America" make B.M.I.'s current cacophony sound like the music of the spheres. And a kaleidoscopic flashback on World War 1 backs up Professor Elliott by showing that Harvard Square really is a very disagreeable place compared to a battlefield. Jack Oakie, though, provides some of the best mugging since he annexed a paunch and gave up Joe College roles; and he slips a couple of resounding swats past the censors' guard smack on Grable...
With accurate artillery and automatic small-arms fire they stopped tanks, routed infantry, even took new heights. At week's end Athens spokesmen confidently predicted the imminent capture of Tepeleni, key to the coastal front; and on the northern front Greek Sanitary Corps mopping up the battlefield buried 650 Italians...
...horsemen to visiting newspapermen, then put on his show next day. He had indeed demonstrated that modern cavalry could flow off roads, through brush and sand, over ridges and through gullies which would slow or balk any mechanized force. And horsed units, within the limits of a rough battlefield, could speedily transport an impressive array of fire power: a modern U. S. Cavalry division's 6,476 horses and 10,100 officers and men should carry, among other things, 9,764 pistols, 942 light & heavy machine guns, 117 artillery pieces, 4,863 Garand rifles...
...original members' (Dallas' Tank Sausage Local No. 1) campaign: blunt points on bayonets, better enforcement of antinoise and assault ordinances on the battlefield, rear-view mirrors and road flares for tank equipment, creation of king's-X areas on battlefields for tired soldiers. Title assumed by Bergman and friends: Founding Fodders...
...imports ?50,000,000 ($200,000,000). That such enormous quantities of goods still moved in & out of British ports, long since "rendered use less" according to the propaganda of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, was a great military triumph. But on the economic battlefield it was grave that Britain's adverse balance has risen from ?27,000,000 ($108,000,000) per month...