Word: combats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political, economic and military interests in the eastern Mediterranean area. The Navy announced that it was sending four modern submarines to Turkey. A thousand Marines sailed for the Mediterranean aboard the Navy's Montague and Bexar, both equipped for landing operations. The Marines took with them full combat equipment, including tanks, artillery, jeeps, trucks and flamethrowers. Speculation bubbled: where would the Marines land? Best guess was that they would not; that they would remain afloat, ready to take in hand small crises which might develop anywhere from Palestine to Genoa...
...black smoke. Out of the cloud ran the pilot, streaming flame, to shrivel and die before their eyes. At that moment Forrester realized an important fact. Ever since he had lost his wife in a bomb blast in London he had been trying coldly to get himself killed in combat. Now he knew that he didn't, after all, want...
Volpone (Siritzky International), rare Ben Jonson's rarest spectacle, has been somewhat simplified for the screen by Adapters Stefan Zweig and Jules Romains. In reviving Jonson in any form they have had to combat what T. S. Eliot calls a "most perfect conspiracy of approval." In the general willingness to grant Jonson all manner of dull virtues, it has been generally overlooked that (in Volpone especially) he abounds in the lively vice of showmanship. This film exaggerates that vice. The result is magnificent mummery, set and played with tremendous style...
When war came, Kemper built the Historical Division from a paper directive to an organization of 300 historians working as teams in combat areas. Their findings will fill 99 volumes. On this job, Kemper met Historian James Phinney Baxter, president of Williams College and an Andover trustee. Baxter found Kemper refreshingly free of brass-hattitudes. He thought Kemper would be the man to succeed retiring Claude Moore Fuess (TIME, May 5). Says Kemper of his first civilian post: "Gosh...
Robert the First. Kleberg the First put the gaunt ranch back on its feet. To combat drought, which periodically killed off thousands of cattle, in 1893 Kleberg drilled the first artesian well in those parts. He built the first of the concrete water troughs for cattle which are now sprinkled around the ranch. He brought in English Shorthorns and Herefords, the railroad (Missouri Pacific), and founded Kingsville. He built the Santa Gertrudis main house...