Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people struggled here, some scrambling over, some lifting small children, some trampling wildly, the fire raced toward them along the collapsing canvas high overhead. The heavy tent poles fell quickly, one after another. As the last toppled, all the blazing canvas came down on the crowd. There was a brief, screaming struggle beneath...
...before this scheme goes into operation, every German soldier must fight to the bitter end. Count Anton added. The Götterdämmerung, which Hitler hopes will be a brief one, should not begin too soon...
There he stayed, except for a brief interlude in New York on the late Evening World and Post, until...
...sure-fire is in part its homely subject matter, which has never before been so earnestly tackled in a film, in part its all-star acting (everybody registers with all his might, down to Lionel Barrymore's few seconds as a preacher and Newcomer Guy Madison's brief, effective appearance as a sailor), most of all David Selznick's extremely astute screen play and production...
...worst effect of all this clashing of wills and systems is not, it seems to me, that the enemy may take brief comfort in the spectacle, but that future relations between America and Britain and restored France may be permanently injured, and that France will seek comfort from Russia for the unreasoning and insulting attitude taken by her Western Allies. However foolish it may seem to us, France can and will take offense at America's patronizingly superior attitude toward a proud and unhumbled people...