Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Role. Churchill digressed for a moment to mention the oft-underestimated part played in the war by Britain's home Islanders. The Royal Navy, which has borne the brunt of the successful antisubmarine war, has lost 41,000 officers and men-just over 30% of its pre-war strength. British airmen in the R.A.F., until now carrying on the main attack against Germany, have lost 38,300 pilots and crewmen killed, 10,400 missing...
...kept on. He never lost his smile either. I was putting a tourniquet on his stump when shrapnel cut up his hands. Some of it hit me, but the skipper took the brunt...
...uses of sound (coyotes, snores, a neighing horse) and camera (scrambled focus for excitement and intoxication) to startle and amuse. John Wayne manages, more toughly if less charmingly than Gary Cooper in his early days, to create a sort of Rocky Mountain Jean Gabin. Jean Arthur, who has the brunt of the comedy to handle, is one of the most attractive handlers in the business, but undermines some of her funniest work by a growing tendency to put the horseplay before the part...
...Warner Bros, will take costs only. Director Michael Curtiz, Kate Smith and many another principal, following the lead of Author-Composer Irving Berlin, have donated their services. The men who do the brunt of the work do it at soldiers...
Britain and the U.S. The success or failure of any such plan would lie in basic economic and political world conditions. The condition of Britain after the war will be of critical importance. Britain bore the economic brunt of armament long before the U.S. Before the passage of Lend-Lease, England saw her gold stocks reduced from $2 billion to $152 million. Foreign investments and other assets were reduced from about $15 billion to about $10 billion. Much of her merchant fleet has been destroyed. She has been building up an increasing indebtedness, chiefly in short-term balances, with such...