Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...host. Besides the Glubb-led Arabs, General Wilson had in his supporting cast British and Scottish regulars, Anzacs, Canadians, Indians (mostly Sikhs and Gurkhas) and Free French. Senegalese, Annamites, Algerians, Moroccans and Lebanese, in addition to Vichy-loyal French regulars, helped General Dentz furnish the present production's conflict...
Dixon Ryan Fox (president of Union College-at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute): "History will say that there were two appropriate times for us to enter this conflict-one in the autumn of 1939 . . . and the other in the summer of 1941, when it was seen to be absolutely necessary in order to avert a German peace...
...from the field, first in the form of God or Teleology, then in the form of consciousness or purpose. These were called illusions, superstitions, metaphysics. "The blind play of forces known as struggle replaced purpose. The vast arena of nature was pictured as a scene of 'desperate' conflict. . . . History was a sieve that worked. Man was the residue...
...Torpedoes played a greater part than shellfire in crippling and sinking the Bismarck. At Taranto, at Matapan and in this conflict, the British have shown great skill in using the torpedo-carrying aircraft, which was invented by a U.S. naval officer in 1912, which has surprisingly not been adopted by the Germans in the Battle of the Atlantic...
...discouraging thing about this conflict from the British and American point of view is that in technical perfection of the implements of war, both of us are still, after twenty months of war, following the Germans, instead of leading them...