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...bottomless river) is the Salween, which curls for 200 miles through the mountains of Yünnan. Along its west bank the Japanese had nurtured themselves, gathering their strength. Near Tengyueh they struck. Three columns, altogether some 6,000 veteran troops, swung north and east with the apparent intention of outflanking Chinese troops scattered along the Burma Road...
Cause for Exuberance. "Stalingrad continued to hold, and the . . . Germans poured their resources into this bottomless pit. . . ." The Germans meanwhile were encouraged to believe that a Second Front attempt would be made in Western Europe. Then "like a bolt from the blue, Montgomery in Egypt fell on Rommel." Eisenhower landed in North Africa. The Germans turned their panic-stricken faces south, and "instantly destruction fell upon them at Stalingrad...
...normally have. This schism in his nature, Fausset believes, was in part the source of such greatness as he had. It was also the chief source of his failures. Whitman's femininity gave him his tremendous powers for the passive absorption of experience, for sympathy, for the almost bottomless endurance (as in the Civil War hospitals) of massive suffering. But it also accounts for the sentimentality, effusiveness, extreme over-assertiveness, pseudo-masculinity and egoism of many of his poems...
...that area, and as far south as Orel, below Moscow, the ground remained fairly hard, the weather brisk. Beyond, toward the Black Sea, the thaw had set in and the two armies fought in bottomless, gluey...
These two books, the first to come out of Russia since the war engulfed the Soviets, shed a strange leftish light on the mysterious spiritual sources that steel Stalin's subjects to fortitude. There emerges a weird composite of child mentality, propaganda hallucination, semireligious selflessness and apparently bottomless intrepidity-a mixture as interesting but alien to U.S. understanding as Tibet...