Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood influence in Washington that is behind the current national "war heroes" tour to whip up our patriotism prompted the following: (I guess it was the street banners in Los Angeles reading "Welcome War Heroes, June 28" that really made...
None could say for certain what was in Churchill's mind. A good guess was that, at least until last weekend, he was convinced that a second front, in any big sense of the word, could not be successful...
Military Strength in the Far East is anybody's guess. Authors Davies & Steiger believe that half the Russian air force is held there, that the Far Eastern Red Army has not been appreciably drained for war in the west. Naval information is even vaguer than military, but in 1939 Russia's Pacific Fleet was reported to consist of 18 destroyers, 90 submarines, 80 coastal motorboats, 32 gunboats, 75 mosquito boats...
...peril. Timoshenko is outnumbered in material, even in men on most of his fronts. In great peril was the land of the Volga and the Caucasus, which Timoshenko had called the decisive area of Russia. But the decision had not yet been reached, and the world could easily guess what the stolid, big-boned peasant from Bessarabia was saying to his harried, divided, tired and retreating troops in the ruined fields of the Don. He was saying: "Brothers, our country is in your hands. The outcome depends on us alone...
...nice voice. We came to a long flight of stone steps, and I grabbed her by the throat. I wanted her to keep on singing. I choked her. How could she keep on singing when I choked her?" Later he said: "Fancy my being a murderer! I guess that Thompson girl was the hardest. She was strong and, oh boy, could she drink gin squashes! She told me I had a baby face, but I am wicked underneath...