Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holing Up. At Bear Mountain, N.Y., a groundhog named Albert broke zoo for the second time in two weeks, got six feet underground before he was located. The zoo gave up, let him hibernate...
...Wilson saw plenty of dive-bombing from the wrong end. He gave U.S. officers words of cheer about what it is like to be dive-bombed. The effect, he thinks, is 90% psychological. If the morale of the bombed outfit is high-as his was-the men will grin & bear it. But he saw many a French driver jump from his truck and run into the woods when the Stukas came over-leaving a truck to block traffic or crack up on the roadside...
...hardworking brothers forced by cheap labor to quit the mine and emigrate to the U.S.; his beauteous sister Angharad (Maureen O'Hara) marry the mine owner's son after the village cleric (Walter Pidgeon) stoically refuses to have her share his poverty; his good mother (Sara Allgood) bear the family disintegration with humility and courage...
...common German soldier on the Moscow front knew last week was that he was being attacked by Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov, the new Red Chief of Staff, by Colonel Winter, who knew the weak points of German uniforms, by Captain Mud, who was a bear on tanks, and by Private Cootie, who carries typhus bullets in his magazine. Something was not right with the German plan...
Landis declared that the extension of Germany's lines of communication into the Caucasus and Asia Minor will lead to her ultimate collapse, as soon as English-Russian pressure is brought to bear at that point. He was emphatic in his belief that American material aid in planes and armaments will prove to be a decisive factor in this struggle, when it occurs...