Word: compact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manner is more striking than his appearance. He stands a compact 5 ft. 9 in.; his black hair is greying. He conveys an impression of quiet competence...
...Trumans were temporarily quartered in historic Blair House, diagonally across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. Within a few days U.S. citizens grew accustomed to pictures of Harry Truman's neat, compact figure striding briskly across the street, up the grey, curving driveway, into the executive offices...
...commander, Lieut. General Sir Miles Christopher Dempsey, has learned and grown in World War II. He was a Lieutenant colonel in 1939. In those days, the usual type of top-ranking British general was majestic, rugged, slow-moving and often slow-thinking. The current type is trim, compact, quick-moving, quick witted and willing to learn - like Montgomery, Alexander and Dempsey. Dempsey is the tallest of the three (six feet) but he is slender...
Unknown Ingredient. But what of the top Nazis who cannot hide? With a compact army of young SS and Hitler Youth fanatics, they will retreat, behind a loyal rearguard cover of Volksgrenadiere and Volksstürmer, to the Alpine massif which reaches from southern Bavaria across western Austria to northern Italy. There immense stores of food and munitions are being laid down in prepared fortifications. If the retreat is a success, such an army might hold out for years...
...firmly secure the Pomeranian and Silesian flanks before they move on Berlin. If Berlin is lost before the western Allies move, the Nazis will still hold the Ruhr. When that is gone, they will still have the industries of central and southern Germany, Austria, Bohemia to nourish a diminished, compact and desperate Wehrmacht for a while longer...