Word: godforsaken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Obviously, He was not. The godforsaken conference at last got down to brass tacks (thanks largely to George Marshall's drive). But it did not get down to anything like agreement. No sooner had the Ministers tackled the most important points of the German question (reparations, economic and political unification) than the U.S. and Russia-in almost so many words-called each other a couple of horse thieves...
Astronomers, sedentary folk, once got much of their exercise running down solar eclipses. That was the only time they had a good look at the lively goings-on in the sun's atmosphere. But those eclipses, that dragged astronomers to Godforsaken parts of the earth, happened less than once a year, lasted only a few minutes and were often masked by clouds...
Allied troops in north Burma and southeast China were only 26 miles apart across the savage mountains. They fought toward each other in wild, monsoon-sodden terrain (see map). But even if they succeeded in joining, it would be only a token. The real consideration in this remote. Godforsaken battleground is a road-and the road has to wait for clean-up in the rear, and until other terrain suitable for road-building is cleared by the fighters...
Christmas has some queer outward manifestations in this crazy godforsaken land of battle: death, injury, disease and the grim terror of loneliness. There is not much peace, not much good will. But the other night the Army field censor was going through the unit's letters and he silently handed me one short note and pointed to the final paragraph. It was from an Ohio private to his wife: "It will be a different Christmas this year. The altar will be a fallen tree in this stinking jungle. All around there will be the stink of sweat, unwashed clothes...
Aram has as many eccentric uncles as Gracie Allen. Each of them is worth a Saroyan comic-tear or two. Uncle Melik "was just about the worst farmer that ever lived." On his godforsaken desert farm, he set out hundreds of pomegranate trees, poured all his love and money into them, lost both trees and land. Once he looked a horned toad straight in the eye. Then...