Word: battleworn
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...Frogmen (20th Century-Fox), is a late addition to Hollywood's muster roll of World War II movies, but it turns out to be one of the most absorbing of the lot. The picture turns the trick in spite of a battleworn plot about a tough-minded commander (Richard Widmark), whose overzealous sense of duty alienates his men (Dana Andrews et al.) until the crisis of battle finally brings them together. Its secret weapon: the work of the Navy's underwater demolition teams, the swimmers who spearheaded U.S. amphibious invasions from Sicily to Okinawa...
...have for one thrilling moment transplanted me from the arbitrament of the destructive mechanics of force to the constructive ennoblement of a seat of learning . . . refreshed the battleworn spirit of an old soldier with the fragrance which clusters around the sacred memories of that magic word home...
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