Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was the question: who had the initiative last week on the western front? The Germans had it in Alsace, the British had it in the north. Nobody had it in the Ardennes, where the Germans were successfully evacuating the last of their armor and crack infantry, and where the U.S. was successfully liquidating the German bulge...
...only twelve miles into Belgium at the widest point, east of Houffalize. The Germans evacuated their funnel at Houffalize, which had served its purpose, but seemed determined to hold the funnel at Saint-Vith for a few days longer. Clearing weather enabled Allied tactical pilots to take a last crack at German vehicles, of which they destroyed more than 1,000. On the south, General Patton's onrushing Third Army came within range of German guns firing from the casemates of the Westwall itself...
Says Dr. Kasanin, who maintains a clinic for the rehabilitation of discharged servicemen as well as one for the treatment of servicemen's wives: women are paying the same war penalties as men, many of whom crack up long before they reach combat. Women who have followed their husbands to embarkation ports often find themselves spiritually stranded. Many stay simply because they somehow feel closer to their husbands there...
Their forward echelon is composed of Selznick, Goldwyn and International (a holding corporation for a number of the newer lone hands, such as Writer Nunnally Johnson, Director Sam Wood and Actor Gary Cooper). Other front-rankers are Hunt Stromberg, and (potentially) crack Producer-Writer-Director Preston Sturges...
...loves censors, but some-like those at SHAEF-are especially unloved. Said the New York Times's crack Drew Middleton: "The worst [censorship] I have experienced in five years." The OWI's brash George H. Lyon (former Buffalo Times editor) risked a reprimand by calling SHAEF policy "stupid," and was straightway backed up by his boss, Elmer Davis...