Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that prevents Friday's contest with the trainees from reaching epic proportions is the fact that Williams participation will be as coach, not player. The eccentric Red Sox outfielder underwent a hernia operation recently, and is not sufficiently recovered to play...
...information and good will was two-way. In London, cinema audiences hailed a Russian film, Stalingrad, as the equal of Desert Victory, In the U.S., audiences and critics applauded MARCH OF TIME'S One Day of War, which had been derived from a longer Russian film, and the epic Siege of Leningrad...
...cameramen who shot the picture, there were 17 casualties--four dead, seven wounded, six captured. The picture reflects their painstaking work, and a fine job of film editing makes it a work of art as well as cinematic journalism. And, unlike the average Hollywood epic, it manages to be damned convincing because it portrays battle as a matter of sweat as well as blood and tears...
...story of Colonel Stephen Watts Kearny's conquest of the Southwest is more epic and just as robust. Kearny had volunteer trouble too. As he boarded a steamboat before the start of his expedition, he ordered the sentry not to let the volunteers follow him. But they stormed the gangplank. Cried one of the new conquistadors, slapping his commander on the back: "You don't git off from us, old hoss! For by Ingin corn we'll go plum through fire and thunder with you. What'll you drink, General? Don't be back...
There was the disappointment at not becoming the first general officer in his class -an honor that Delos C. Emmons walked away with. There were the epic poems that never got published. The general hopes that they will be published posthumously...