Word: detachedness
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Finally, a blow at Germany's western flank would not be entirely detached from the Pacific war. Such a blow, whether through France or Norway, would delay-and might avert-a Nazi drive through the Near and Middle East toward a junction with Japan in India. To have Russia...
"They took their time. . . . They swooped lower over the road, then swept steeply up into the clear blue sky. . . . Another few hundred yards along the road . . . nine bombers detached themselves lazily from the cloud of aircraft that now followed us almost like an escort. . . .Again there was the whistle of...
Popularity. But such capitalist baggage did not prevent Joe Davies from giving Russia a detached once-over. The extrovert Ambassador saw Russia, rather than his own prejudgments of Russia. While most Moscow emissaries stayed in their salons and tried to imagine they were in London or Paris, Joe Davies rustled...
The comments on communism and socialism are perhaps the poorest section of the volume; the discussion of purely literary topics is the best. Allston's (alias Brooks) belief that fascism is scarcely an important topic in surveying the American mind and that a sort of Arthurian joy of combat is...
This move, the infant Council's first official step, is also its most important, and it would be destructive to the whole principle of Plan E to pick a manager from within Cambridge's city limits. What is needed is an experienced administrator, preferably lured away from some other city...