Word: bored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early days of the attack, General Eisenhower had hustled to a headquarters at Verdun, conferred with his top generals. In 15 minutes he had appraised the scope and probable aims of the push, taken his decisions, issued his orders. First Army reserves bore down from the north, compressed the salient's right flank, recaptured Grandmenil and Manhay. On the south, General Patton's armor blasted a corridor to Bastogne, pushed on to the north and then west to encircle the German tip south of Saint-Hubert. Patton also broadened his attacking front all the way east to Echternach...
...Children Chattered. Only the children laughed or talked loudly, still resilient in suffering. One man carried a child pickaback (he stopped us and asked in good, crisp English what the news was from the German battlefront). Others carried children in baskets slung from shoulder staves. One enormous Bactrian camel bore a little child between its two humps...
...This left 250 billion for the nation's 50-odd million civilian cigaret-smokers-an average of 14 a day. The average for the Army's eight million smokers was 23 a day, or eight packs a week. But a steady stream of news stories bore out the fact that soldiers at the front were getting nowhere near as many as that. The question arose: were there huge unused Army & Navy stocks stored away in seaboard warehouses...
Then, as he vomited gasoline and seawater, the monstrous form of a battleship bore down on him. He had managed to get his waterproof flashlight in hand. He pressed the button, waved the light overhead. The battle wagon swept past...
...original picture bore out, in some eleven reels, this bitter preface. After being dubiously received at a sneak preview it was drastically cut, by Sturges, according to the desires of his employers. In its present mutilated nine-reel state, the picture will probably do its best service if it interests cinemaddicts in reading the book on which it is based...