Word: finest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacific Bob Sherrod went in with the doughboys and Marines who found the beaches of Okinawa so strangely deserted. It was "the kind of landing every correspondent who knows the Marines wanted to cover-particularly those of us who had been at Iwo Jima. This was the finest start of a battle our Marines and soldiers could hope for" (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
...Please, for God's sake, stop sending our finest youth to be murdered on places like Two Jima. It is too much for boys to stand, too much for mothers and homes to take. It is driving some mothers crazy. Why can't objectives be accomplished some other way? It is most inhuman and awful-stop, stop...
...educational ways, for returning servicemen will have "little patience with half measures or compromises. . . . They will be ... men who have learned discipline and know sacrifice. To those who return, religion will be all or nothing. . . . [But] if [their] zeal and enthusiasm ... is properly directed, they will be the finest group of men the church has ever had as leaders...
Cairo was sure to become the great air junction for airlines between Europe, Asia and Africa. Now or never, Egypt must decide what role she wished to play in the air age. Outside Cairo the U.S. had already built and equipped the finest air field in the Middle East...
From Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr., who had read that U.S. tanks were being unfavorably compared with the German heavies, especially the 72-ton Royal Tiger: "We've got the finest tanks in the world. We just love to see the German Royal Tiger come up on the field...