Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might well have been, is that its author has constructed a clover series of character analyses, without reference to the fact of the war. And Patrick has been faithful, too, in his representation of fighting men. Instead of falling into the fallacious techniques of such productions as "The Eve of Saint Mark," where the speech and thoughts of the men were involved only with the war, he has drawn a portrait of men who are embarrassed, ashamed to discuss battle and its ugly overtones...
Well, we're serving fruit and nuts and giving codles of free gifts up in Chase C-36 on Christmas Eve. Just bring your wallet and a se--a beautiful blonde and knock three times. We'll know Joe sent you. Oh yes, send her in second so the wrong person doesn't got clubbed to death...
...Virginia was raised from the shallow water into which she sank, a record of tragedy and horror was chalked on one of her bulkheads. The record showed that three men who had been trapped in a watertight compartment had lived from that Sunday morning until the day before Christmas Eve...
With Leyte still unconquered, Luzon seemed farther away than it had in the first steamroller phases of the Leyte invasion. Manila was only 330 miles to the north, but any rosy dreams of New Year's Eve parties in Manila had gone glimmering. MacArthur's top men had not expected anything easy to begin with-but it seemed improbable that they had expected to go into December involved in any such uninspired dogfight on Leyte...
France to Russia. What General de Gaulle would say there to Marshal Stalin and what Stalin would say to him was foreshadowed on the eve of De Gaulle's departure in the Consultative Assembly's first full-dress debate on foreign policy...