Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appear before the Senate Military Affairs Committee. He used the occasion to denounce the Army's ordnance bureau and supply system and to charge Secretary of War Newton D. Baker and the Army Chief of Staff with inefficiency and incompetency. As a result, he was barred from overseas combat command in World War I by Secretary Baker and the A.E.F. commander, John J. Pershing. Wood's views had won him wide popularity, however, and in 1920 he was the favorite to get the Republican nomination. But in a convention deadlock, a group of men in a smoke-filled...
...naturalism commands respect and, for at least half the picture's length, admiration as well. In its Italian wartime setting, the movie develops a tender, hesitant romance between Teresa and an immature G.I. (Newcomer John Ericson), who has folded up with battle fatigue after his first taste of combat. When he recovers, they marry; until she can join him, he goes home to a tenement flat and his old dependence on his mother (well played by Patricia Collinge...
...direction of Fred Zinneman comes up to his high mark in The Search and The Men. He neither patronizes his Italian civilians, typecasts his G.I.s nor falsifies his combat scenes, which prove as taut as any fiction footage yet shot about World War II. But the picture gets into trouble after it gets back to the U.S. The hero's psychological troubles and diagnosis fall as patly into place as in a clinical report. When the script attempts to show him growing up emotionally in time for a hopeful ending, the change is so drastically telescoped and hastily motivated...
...quotes from top brass, the film shows the Air Force building its strength and keeping on a day-to-day alert to retaliate against attack on the U.S. Then the movie joins 17 officers and men aboard a B-36, stays with them on a 9,000-mile simulated combat flight on a 39-hour route from Texas to Iceland and back. Target: Detroit...
...phony and misfit skipper. A pallid little man turning to fat, one of the low men in his Annapolis class, he could handle neither his ship, his officers nor his men. He was a martinet, a liar, a petty tyrant, and, when the chips were down in combat, a coward. On escort duty in the Pacific, all this became painfully obvious, even to a raw ensign like Willie Keith. When a typhoon hit the fleet in the Philippine Sea in December 1944, it became plain to all hands that Captain Queeg was not enough of a seaman to save...