Word: existent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...applies to portraying the Soviet Army and the Russian people. It is quite natural that in wartime a patriotic writer is moved mainly by the people's courage, their heroism and their scorn of death. He is far less prone to dwell on other emotions which unquestionably do exist in people's hearts - on such feelings as a longing for home, on man's natural fear in the face of peril, on bodily fatigue and depressing thoughts...
...aseptic start, the Gaullist Government formally "abolished" the "French State" of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain. "In law," it proclaimed, "the Republic never ceased to exist...
Wrote Correspondent Mead: "Only the food was missing. Dinner, when the dining-room doors were finally thrown open at 10 p.m., consisted of small pieces of bread on which were dabs of Spam, corned beef and Vienna sausage. ... No one mentioned food. It almost doesn't exist for civilians at the moment. . . . They say the Germans were very correct: no drunkenness, few troops; no noise...
Often the dictator has put his adversaries in jail, but seldom for more than a month at a spell. He controls the press, but lets a muffled opposition exist...
They did not wreck Naples. They did not wreck Rome. The fear that extremist Nazis intend to ravage the rest of Europe has been carefully cultivated by German terror propaganda. But the Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche, in the past no sucker for German propaganda, reported that such plans did exist. The paper's informants said that the catacombs and sewers of Paris were "stuffed with dynamite," that Warsaw, Prague, other cities were to be laid waste if the plans were carried out, that Berlin's frantic exploitation of Allied bomb damage was to be used to justify unlimited...