Word: clouds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faking and spinning. The good correspondent goes overside with the troops, crawls up the ridge to the command post, cajoles himself into the bomber, bums a ride in the General's jeep. The photographer is there with his tripod, his fast-action film; he is there with a cloud filter for the dogfight in the stratosphere; there with a flash bulb in the bloody alley where the body lies...
...which] are not wealth and birth, but talents and virtue." In his old age, infirm and debt-ridden from the years he had given his country, he had the abiding faith to write: "I have observed this march of civilization advancing from the seacoast, passing over us like a cloud of light, increasing our knowledge and improving our condition. . . . And where this progress will stop, on one can say. . . ." The Path Down. Not every American generation would have raised a monu ment to Thomas Jefferson. He was too complex (and too daring) to be easily loved...
...Even the most naive European spectator of an American film . . . knows when Hollywood is giving him a conducted tour to Cloud-Cuckoo-Land. But he compares his native Cloud-Cuckoo-Land with the American version, usually to the advantage of the American version...
...German shells are growing nearer. One burst has landed just to the left of a battery of ours, another one clatters down near some bushes where we know a battery is. In a cloud of smoke our gunners seem to have disappeared, but in a few minutes there is a flash of fire from the bushes and we know our gunners are still there...
...Kenney sent in his flyers for the final blow. Low-flying Havocs (A-20s) struck first. Fortresses returned with more 1,000-lb. bombs. Three] minutes later Mitchells roared down to machine-gun the battered, burning ships. Lightning fighters darted at a cloud of Zeros. A new wave of Fortresses came over, low. Flame cloaked a destroyer. A 5,000-ton merchantman burst open. Four others were hit. Low-flying fighters turned lifeboats towed by motor barges, and packed with Jap survivors, into bloody sieves. Loosed on the Japs was the same ferocity which they had often displayed. This time...