Word: dispiritedness
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to look at the world from his Cornish window." Q put what he saw into stately poems, rolling ballads, romances, respect ful essays on Shakespeare and the ancients. Occasionally he published lectures which he felt were colored by a "colloquial style" - though one critic complained that the nearest thing in...
Marshal Alexander M. Vasilevsky cleaned up the largest of the East Prussian pockets and drove with four armies on Königsberg. Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky took Danzig, first city to fall to the Germans on the first day of World War II. Other Russian troops stormed into Gdynia and...
Broke and dispirited, Harry Truman turned to politics. With the backing of American Legionnaires, who had made his haberdashery their hangout, he won the nod of Boss Pendergast for county judge. Faithful, efficient, unimaginative, never one to make trouble, he stayed in this administrative post for ten years.
Their pace seemed slow, the gait of the runty ponies between the shafts of their carts dispirited. But at day's end, when a runway had been completed, a building put up or a force-landed plane fished bodily from a swamp, Americans saw the result and never lost...
With disloyalists like Japanese Puppet Wang Ching-wei and other questionable elements, China faces the fifth-column problem in an acute form, and Chiang is acutely conscious of it. He refers his people not to the fall of France but to Chinese history: "You should instruct our people to take...