Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was more behind the sudden shift than the ditching of an unsuccessful commander for one who bore a somewhat overblown reputation as a "stonewall" defender in Italy. To Allied minds who know the Nazi mind best it appeared likely that Kesselring was chosen not primarily for his generalship, but as the commander who might best-from the Nazi point of view-take the Allied knockout punch or throw in the towel...
...Remagen had served its American captors well. But it had taken a terrible beating for most of that time. First there had been the charges set off by the Germans when the Americans came to grab the bridge. Then, for three or four days of terrible urgency, it bore the quaking weight of tanks, big guns, heavy trucks, the tread of thousands of men as they hurried across the Rhine. Hour after hour shells had screamed through its beams; several had gouged big chunks out of the uprights...
Part of Britons' faith in his fairness was because he belonged to no party. Since most of them bore no party labels between elections themselves, they trusted his rationing because they felt it was not mixed with politics...
Lieut. General George S. Patton's Third Army was going strong. So were the battle-famed 1st Infantry Division and other outfits of the First Army. They bore the scars of the Battle of the Bulge and were out for meat. Major General Hugh J. Gaffey's 4th Armored Division (Third Army)* had been given a task of exploiting to do after the Kyll River had been bridged near Trier. Its tankmen and motorized infantrymen were given rations for ten days, ordered to pour on the coal and get to the Rhine...
...Tree Grows in Brooklyn" has turned up on the screen quite cleaned up and edited, but the sordid spirit and the pat honesty are still very much in evidence. If the story is inclined to bore the avid action fan with its straightforward excess of emotion, then the indictment probably spares Hollywood and goes back to Betty Smith...