Word: hards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their other troubles, the Greek Reds were still haunted by the specter of Markos Vafiades, the hard-bitten guerrilla commander with the fierce mustache, who had been purged for Titoist leanings (TIME, Feb. 14). Nicholas Zachariades, secretary-general of the party, had found it necessary time & again to issue orders against the singing of old party songs about "my dear little Markos." There were still no songs about the new guerrilla commander, Georgios Vrontissios, alias Goussias, a former printer whose mustache is considerably less impressive than his predecessor's. According to the likeliest of many conflicting reports from...
Utah Beach on Dday, and it had hard fighting all the way to Cherbourg. Van Fleet was wounded, left the hospital to get back to his outfit while Bradley was on the way there to give him a medal. Bradley caught up with him, gave him the medal, and some advice: handle the next fight from a command post and stop working up forward on the firing line...
This is merely a way of dodging the hard facts of U.S. responsibility and interest in Greece. Sober American observers feel it makes little sense to expect good democratic behavior from a nation which has never had a fair chance to give democracy...
Athenians do not quite understand his earnestness, candor and energy-they say hard-working Americans do not know how to live. To Greeks he typifies the vast and somewhat incomprehensible power of the U.S. A few days ago, near Van Fleet's headquarters, an old woman in black pushed past a guard and asked the general's aide if that was "Van Flit" coming down the steps. When the surprised officer nodded, the woman crossed herself, murmured "God bless him," and hurried away...
...film's plot unfolds in the twin towns of Altenstadt and Neuburg, on either side of the Elbe, in the Soviet and American zones of Germany. One dramatic shot shows Russians and Americans meeting on the Elbe, with Russian guns grimly pointed westward. The hard-working Russian hero, Major Nikita Kuzmin, is a glaring contrast to the American Major James Hill, an amiable good-for-nothing who carries a bottle of Black & White Scotch in his hip pocket, and tries to involve his highminded Russian opposite number in "some kind of a little deal" on the black market...