Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Isles. Adolf Hitler's own newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, last week observed that a German invasion of Great Britain last autumn "would have spared the English people some distress and grief," adding that the reason why the invasion was not made would be told at the opportune time-"and not only with words." The Berlin correspondent of La Tribuna of Rome wired his paper that Germany was making formidable preparations for the final assault on Britain: "There are German troops who for months and months have been trained in nothing but embarkation and landing operations. There...
...contact with U. S. life, they developed a curious cultural provincialism. The Depression came to them as a refreshing change. Fundamentally skeptical, maladjusted, defeatist, the intellectuals felt thoroughly at home in the chaos and misery of the '30s. Fundamentally benevolent and humane, they loved their fellow countrymen in distress far more than they could ever love them in prosperity. And they particularly enjoyed life when applause began to greet their berating of the robber barons, president makers, economic royalists, malefactors of great wealth...
...quite - wastes away. The wife of a Swiss delicatessen-keeper takes a shine to a young man about to be called back to the army of his native land. Her husband eventually suspects the worst, but it really hasn't happened. The young man - to the distress of the wife - has been in love with someone else all the time...
These counsels were reflected in the field. The Japanese drastically shortened lines and weakened garrisons in China, at the cost of much face and the risk of future distress. In the extreme southwest, they burned and evacuated Nanning. and. fighting off harassing Chinese troops, retired from Yunnan and Kwangsi Provinces to Hainan Island, springboard for projected drives westward to the rest of Indo-China, southward at Dutch islands, eastward at Hong Kong. The Chinese claimed that in the eleven months since the Japanese took Nanning, they had lost 74,000 men by sickness and siege. The Japanese claimed that...
Lucien Brouha of the Department of Physiology spoke at the same meeting on the distress in Belgium because of the scarcity of food. Before the war 40% of the food consumed by the Low Countries was imported, he state, but much of this was unecessary due to over eating...