Word: combats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pale green floor of the House of Commons last week the champion orators of the Labor Party and of the Tory Opposition clashed in head-on combat. Technically they were debating Britain's monetary plight, but they both made slambang political speeches aimed straight at the forthcoming national elections...
...magnificent climactic sequences of fighting at Midway and Okinawa, Moviemakers Wald and Daves combed through some 2½ million feet of U.S. Navy combat film. The results-in both black & white and Technicolor-are breathtaking. Some of the shots, which moviegoers will remember from wartime newsreels-of planes toppling across a flight deck like gasoline torches and of Kamikazes dissolving into smoke and matchwood 100 yards from the carrier's bridge-have the effect of recurring nightmares. Equally effective, except for the muttering background music, are the crowded shots of a carrier's communications room, the intricate, knotted...
Hollywood can claim no credit for the shattering magnificence of the combat scenes in Task Force. But for the sharp-eyed selection, and the patient cutting and pasting which brings history roaring back into vivid, living focus, it can claim a knockout...
Adenauer would have to combat the big Social Democratic Party, led by rambunctious Kurt Schumacher and shrewd Carlo Schmid. He knew well what was ahead. After the hairline confirmation vote, a photographer asked him to smile. "Aber gern [Be glad to]," Adenauer replied, "for soon I may not have any more reason for smiling...
Arnold never flew a plane to combat. In World War I he became the youngest colonel in the U.S. Army and the second-ranking air officer, but he was kept in Washington. His account of those years is the familiar one of War Department myopia, never enough and that too late. Billy Mitchell wanted to bomb Germany, but the U.S. hadn't a single bomber. When Mitchell was court-martialed in 1925 for his obstreperous advocacy of air power, his friend & follower Hap Arnold was sent off to rusticate at Fort Riley. Determined not to quit under fire, Arnold...