Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic significance to the U.S. The Mediterranean was now an Allied lake. Militarily, the Allies were not now pacing fretfully around Festung Europa- they were on the drawbridge of Hitler's fortress. And since the fortress has no roof, the whole of the German heartland lay exposed to constant attack...
...Brigadier General Lowell Rooks, former head of the U.S. Ground Forces' Training Division. On G-3 (the Operations Section) devolves the job of reviewing all possible future operations, submitting likely battle plans to the commander in chief. During actual combat there is constant liaison between G-3 and the "agents for conducting battle." Explains Rooks's deputy British Brigadier C. S. Sugden: "We continually discuss our problems just to make sure we're fighting the same battle." Sugden is a brilliant, spectacular, fantastically tall, long-nosed Briton who messes with twelve Americans and regularly complains...
...Such effort, if nothing else, is commendable. For it makes some effort to "legitimatize" the screen into a point where not only the Hays office but all the standards of movieland are strict enough to produce a film that holds the delicate pattern that is portrayed in "The Constant Nymph...
Once, during the battle, Gurtiev was buried in a cave. Dug out, he moved his headquarters to a huge concrete main beneath the factory ruins. From there he directed the defense-and constant counterattacks. His Siberian division was bled and mauled, but Gurtiev refused to move. Last week Moscow announced that Major General Gurtiev was killed leading his troops in the attack on Orel...
...plants not only air-condition with Freon, but use it to keep precision tools at a constant temperature. Because of its safety, the U.S. Navy and Maritime Commission use it exclusively on ships and submarines. Then last May the Surgeon General's office showed up with a malarial mosquito-killer called an aerosol, publicized as the "mosquito bomb." The "Mosquito Bomb" is a spray gun holding about one pound of insecticide...