Word: descend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps, the lieutenants and corporals guessed, the German blow would descend when the current Russian push spent its power...
...films at a time when the issues involved in this war should be effectively presented to the mass of people. That abused word "Escape" categorizes almost all the Hollywood output of the last three months, with one or two exceptions, that show to what bad taste the movies can descend if given a chance. Anyone who has seen "Confirm or Deny" can testify to this. The latest example of Hollywood's attitude to the war is seen in "To Be Or Not To Be," Ernst Lubitsch's new farce, a very comic idea made acutely uncomfortable because the locale...
...case. It rests on the undeniable major premise that the wrongs of the imperialist past cannot be undone, that present and future are what matter. The text is taken from the inscription on the $10,000,000 palace in which the Viceroy waited last week : "Liberty will not descend to a people ; a people must raise themselves to Liberty." The case goes on to claim that Indian self-government must be extended gradually, that sudden granting of it would result in civil war, ruinous to India and all its relations...
...Japanese take Singapore and Burma and advance on India, the obvious Axis strategy will be for Hitler to descend on India from the west. Between Germany and India lie Suez, Turkey and the Middle East with its oil. For such prizes Hitler might sacrifice more ground in Russia...
...puny soldier of 25, whose father had been a "strong man" and wrestled with a Russian bear and whose mother had pampered him. He fought in France, did bravely in Norway until he was blown into a cellar; then he developed night blindness. His ambition: to descend in a parachute in the center of Berlin and wreck buildings. If Britain should be invaded, he plans to kill his whole family, including his stepfather, "to prevent them from being raped...