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...aircraft carriers and submarines. These scenes are ruined by a broadside of plot cliches: Sub Commander Glenn Ford's valiant struggle against red tape to get his craft equipped with the new weapons; his romance with the admiral's secretary (Viveca Lindfors); his recovery, through sheer grit and amateur psychiatry, from an emotional trauma that paralyzes his legs...
...python glided into her hut. But soon after, having bought some firearms and learned to use them, she became the village hunter and kept the whole area in meat, shooting game as big as hippopotamus. She knew nothing about surgery, but she studied old medical textbooks and, assisted by grit and prayer, tackled whatever came her way with uncommon success. She bought a wonderfully intelligent old Negro woman from her husband (for a few empty tin cans, a little salt and a length of cloth) and trained her to become a first-class nurse. With makeshift instruments and chronically insufficient...
Your eyes may shine, Your teeth may grit, But none of my money Will...
...equal to his trials. "It taught me to scheme," he says. "You didn't win races because you had more guts-you won because you knew how to take the turns and baby your engine. It wasn't all just shut your eyes and grit your teeth...
...like this next year!" Subordinating his distaste for Labor planning to his fervent support of empire development, Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express had a Churchillian message of cheer to Plummer: "The whole harsh picture is a stimulus to resolution and skill, an appeal to the nation's grit...