Word: foe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the Calais area to do instant battle in Normandy, they "might well have turned the scales against us." ' His second decisive battle is not, surprisingly, the breakthrough at Saint-Lô, but the buttoning up of the Falaise pocket in mid-August. Here again, Eisenhower appreciates his foe's mistake: "The enemy showed that fatal tendency to stand and fight when all the logic of war demanded a strategic withdrawal...
While the President squared off, there were hoots from the sidelines. Big, bluff Joe Ryan, president of the A.F.L.'s International Longshoremen's Association and bitter-end foe of Joe Curran, roared: "A strike to turn the U.S. shipping industry over to Russia...
...RING REAFFIRMS BELIEF IN NAZIISM, says the New York Times. GÖRING SAYS HE WAS FOE OF NAZI IDEOLOGY, says the New York Journal-American, same day (depends on how you interpret testimony...
...protest against the Republican farm program "or lack of one." He is afraid of a runaway market, and his most outspoken beef against OPA is the inability of the Washington planners to understand some of the difficulties of farming. He is friendly to labor. But he is an implacable foe of promiscuous spending of public funds. Gus wants the state's finances run as efficiently as he runs his farm. When legislators start throwing money around, he unfailingly gets up and drawls: "I want the taxpayers at the crossroads to know that the state's fiscal affairs...
...Anger is the root of both righteousness and sin. . . . The proper attitude toward evil is anger. . . We must finally be reconciled with our foe, lest we both perish in the vicious circle of hatred.. . . We are called upon again & again to be executors of divine judgment. But in the ultimate sense [the word of St. Paul] is true: 'Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord...