Word: doves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doubtless as a compliment to the dove of peace, the book is written chiefly in pidgin English. . . . If a Channel fog wrote history, it would have much the same attitude to time and the sequence of events as Mr. Hoover and Mr. Gibson . . . but a Channel fog would presumably be less biased...
...dove descending breaks...
...dove may be either Spitfire or Messerschmitt, or the Holy Ghost, or both. The redemption from fire by fire may be either the crucial moral dilemma of war-kill or be killed-or the redemption from hellfire through heaven-sent fire, or both. That the fire is heaven-sent, literally as well as through the mere figurative agents, doves and bombers, Eliot has no doubt. For the lyric continues...
...Voyetekhov's book are several previously unreported facts, such as that a body of the defenders on the south fought their way past Balaclava and into the Crimean hills to join the partisans; that the last handful of defenders on the north dove into the sea and swam toward death when their ammunition was gone; that ruined Sevastopol had a quisling named Vasily Nikitin, appointed "Burgomaster" by the Germans. It is more illuminating to know that Voyetekhov found "No pasarán," the motto of Madrid, scrawled on a wall in Sevastopol; that "Snakes!" is an exclamation of Russian...
...head. Two of my friends were killed and I was wounded. That shrapnel is so hot when it hits you-I don't know what it does to you but you don't feel it. I think I was stunned by the shrapnel, though. I know I dove from the boat about 20 ft. to the water. When I hit the water-it was warm, about 78, I would say-my head cleared. I swam along for a short while when I came to a group of guys off the ship. We tried to help the guys...