Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the south the Liberators flew to drop their calling cards at the Balkan door to middle Europe. They surprised Sedes airdrome, the big Luftwaffe base near Salonika, struck a savage blow and got away without loss. Four days later their wings swept again over Grecian soil, their bombs plastered Nazi airfields near Athens...
...convinced more & more each day that only by a proper combination of war-making means can we achieve victory in the shortest possible time and with the greatest economy in life. . . . Your adversary may be hammered to his knees by bombing, but he will recover unless the knockout blow is delivered by the ground army...
...Russians would have applauded this frank and statesmanlike speech. Their new Red Army of 1943, born in the blood and death of millions, could ask only one thing more-that the preparations be completed and the blow fall while Russia is still strong, while the Russian soldier is still fit and ready...
...picture was flung together in the U.S. with the blessing of the National Council for American Soviet Friendship. A flatulent commentary with lines like "Fly, you banners-there is no wind strong enough to blow you down" is ping-ponged between Blues-Singer Libby Holman and mopey Actor Morris Carnovsky. The famous suspense with which Director Sergei Eisenstein prefaced the battle in Alexander Nevsky has been unmercifully hacked when half a minute of editorial discretion would have kept it whole, and the excellent battle music which Prokofieff contrived for that sequence becomes an aural trunk murder. Eisenstein's appalling...
...when, as a Manila news paperman investigating Japanese fortifications he found himself blocked and thwarted by Japanese agents in the Philippines. The principal one: his barber. My War With Japan is intermingled newspaper reminiscences and history of such Oriental affairs as the Japanese drug trade, together with a blow-by-blow account of how the Japanese tried to jam Alcott's anti-Japanese broadcasts from station XMHA in Shanghai. He was shot at and bombed; efforts were made to kidnap him and break his arms. One value of the story: recalling the days after 1937 in Shanghai, when...