Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knot. Whether godly, heroic Montgomery is of the same military caliber as godly, brilliant "Stonewall" Jackson is a question unanswered. As a military man he appears to be more of the caliber of persistent Ulysses Grant...
...strategy behind the Allies' coordinated air assaults on Tunisia is explained on p. 25. TIME'S Correspondent Jack Belden, reporting this strategy from Cairo last week, also described one of the raids-"not exciting, not heroic, but the kind of dull, monotonous, hard, nerve-straining work American bomber pilots have been doing for five months now in the Mid-East." His dispatch follows...
...problem for Stalin the statesman was to present the seriousness of the plight of Russia as an ally to Western leaders long suspicious of Stalin and his workers' State. Stalin, who had every reason to expect the city named for him to fall shortly after its heroic siege began on Aug. 24, desperately wanted aid from his allies. Stalin the politician made these desires the hope of the Russian people. He made them think that a continental second front had been promised to them, and thereby strengthened their will to hang...
...Russia impregnable against invasion. There is also a story in high places that, in keeping with the "tough-guy" tradition, credits Stalin with one other desire: permission from his allies to raze Berlin, as a lesson in psychology to the Germans and as a burnt offering to his own heroic people...
Trains waited at way stations five to 20 minutes while mountains of mail sacks, tons of parcel post were transferred on windswept platforms. At some stations mail loads were 75% greater than last year. Meanwhile the heroic railroads kept a firm grip on the vital flow of war freight moving to the dark, silent ships at icy ports, switched the daily average of 6,000 carloads of supplies to U.S. camps and plants...