Word: dunkirk
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...school shootings, where every aspect of the murderers' lives is reported on TV and in the press, making them heroes to troubled teens. The media should devote more space to teens who are doing good things instead of paying attention to those who do something unimaginably horrible. JOHN SHIPLEY Dunkirk...
...German invasion and under constant German air attack. He nevertheless refused Hitler's offers of peace, organized a successful air defense that led to the victory of the Battle of Britain and meanwhile sent most of what remained of the British army, after its escape from the humiliation of Dunkirk, to the Middle East to oppose Hitler's Italian ally, Mussolini...
...advised students at the June 1939 Commencement to "neglect the tumult of the moment" would later send a telegram to Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 after the evacuation at Dunkirk in May 1940 stating, "I believe the United States should take every action possible to ensure the defeat of Hitler...
CHURCHILL SAID FAMOUSLY AFTER DUNKIRK, "wars are not won by evacuations." Maybe someone needs to tell the Speaker of the House the same thing about fiscal retreats. Last week, after months of budget stalemate, Newt Gingrich floated a conciliatory plan that could actually reverse course on the deficit. According to his proposal, Congress and the White House would claim victory by adding a "down payment" on a balanced budget to the debt-ceiling extension the G.O.P. now says it will pass next month. The package Gingrich outlined would shave as much as $100 billion from spending during seven years, devoting...
...should be the same lesson we thought we had learned from World War II: The U.S. must support the forces of democracy around the world. We cannot recede into the background and pretend that we are just one of the member states of the United Nations. Be it at Dunkirk or Gorazde, the embattled disciples of democracy look to the U.S. for more than just funds and materiel...