Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theory of warfare tries to discover how we may gain a preponderance of physical forces and material advantages at the decisive point. As this is not always possible, theory also teaches us to calculate moral factors: the likely mistakes of the enemy, the impression created by a daring action . . . yes, even our own desperation. . . . We must familiarize ourselves with the thought of honorable defeat. We must always nourish this thought within ourselves, and we must get completely used to it. Be convinced, Most Gracious Master, that without this firm resolution no great results can be achieved...
...teacher's letter is a quiet and homely report on the state of the nation for which he is fighting. The camera makes that report simple, straightforward and clear as only a camera can. If the report were less unqualifiedly contented, it would gain in power; but it has a good deal of power as it stands. Larry O'Reilly, who wrote and photographed the film, has not tried to beautify the faces of real townspeople, and the face of a real town (Monroe, N.Y.), which are beautiful in their own right. As a result his quiet little...
...week's end the victors had pushed two miles above Ortona, were ten miles below Pescara, Adriatic terminus of the shortest transpeninsular rail-and-highway to Rome. Theirs had been the most notable gain in another week of hill-by-hill advance up the Italian boot. Through dead Ortona, the Canadians trudged after the retreating, fighting Germans...
...factly, as though there were no point in further denial, he referred to "the ruins of Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne and Kassel" and of "all other towns, great and small," which have been damaged. Said he: "If millions of people no longer possess anything to lose, they can only gain something...
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