Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparently sleepy Field Marshal Kutuzov, who understood his country and his people so profoundly that he all but embodied them. It was Kutuzov almost alone who realized that a Napoleon who had attained his goal, yet could neither engage in battle nor negotiate peace, was only a demoralized, helpless trespasser...
...picture opens in a magnificent wallow of amphtracks as they leave their LSTs and head for shore under fire. One is hit and helpless. A plane, too, goes down. These are the finest shots of this stage of battle which have yet been released. Those which follow, ashore, are hardly less fine, made very close to the ground as marines, heroic in size and movement on the screen, rush across the open beach against everything the Japanese can throw at them. A hit man stops short, falls wounded before the lens. The cutting-away from such bits is swift, perhaps...
Westroy Battle Boyce, onetime Government worker, was staff director in the Mediterranean theater before she was brought back to the job she now fills: a director on the general staff responsible for WAC training policies. Fragile and helpless looking, 43-year-old Westray Battle Boyce is known as one of the best administrators in the Corps...
...southern France the Allied fist had struck deep into a surprisingly flabby belly. For weeks the Germans had seen the blow coming. Committed first to meeting the threat from the Normandy beachhead, they waited for the blow from the Mediterranean as if rooted in helpless fascination...
...Tree Inclined. Gorer thinks that this infant training, and the repressed rebellion against it, are at the root of Japanese character-devotion to ritual, neatness and order; horror of dirt (except away from home, where dirt is a gesture of contempt for foreigners); unrestrained savagery against helpless peoples; preoccupation with "face" (which Gorer traces to Japanese parents' sensitiveness to ridicule of an ill-behaved child by outsiders). The Japanese, says Gorer, do not stick together well under attack; they readily turn against a fellow countryman placed in a ridiculous position by outsiders-a fact which, he thinks, accounts...