Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...definitely know that his extreme effort was made . . . so that the men in the Army would have sufficient weapons wherewith to fight. He envied me my commission in the Army Reserve and the opportunity for what he considered a more direct effort to a successful conclusion of the conflict...
...members, all Quakers or representatives of other churches, are longtime pacifists who had formed convictions before the outbreak of the present conflict that they would have nothing to do with any future...
...defender was a better equipped, better trained army, hardened by a year of conflict and steeled by a year of hate. But still the German progress was only slightly slower than in France. At least for the moment, Russia's Maginot Line of men and tanks and guns was holding on the plains before Stalingrad. But southward the North Caucasian flatlands were suffering the same fate as the Dutch-Belgian lowlands. The Germans had wheeled south of Marshal Timoshenko's main defenses and were overrunning lightly defended territory up to the Caucasian foothills. Their swift advance down...
Masani stated that the Cripps mission failed and, due to its frustration, caused a wave of anti-Britsh feeling. He said that the Indian peasants, who composed 90 percent of the population, were almost starving and were quite indifferent to the outcome of the present world conflict...
...cast, in which Orson Welles does not appear, are all good actors with difficult roles to perform. Dolores Costello and Tim Holt, as her spoiled son, present the central conflict of the plot. The son, whose character is strikingly like that of Citizen Kane, lacks the one saving grace of the Ambersons--their charm. His narrow-mindedness and conceit contrast sharply with the polish and warmth of his mother. Yet his stronger traits triumph over her more delicate virtues, destroy her life, and dissipate the family fortune. Once again the main role is that of an unpleasant, cruel man like...