Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pushing south and west from Kharkov, the Red Army will emerge onto open, forest-free flatland ideal for swift, grand-scale tank maneuvers and mobile warfare. The Germans already fear the loss of this year's harvest in the Ukraine. Trapped by a push that threatens to reach the southern anchor of the Dnieper line and the Crimea, they would be up against a more fearful strategic problem: to retreat would mean giving up their greatest prize; to stand and fight it out would be risking annihilation of approximately...
First Star. Allen knew his Army. He returned to the cavalry. That service had many advantages: it was ideal for a practicing poloist, it was socially remunerative and it was a branch from which officers frequently moved to the top in other branches and in the Army at large...
...Cretan guerrillas. Batouvas cannot be more than 5 ft. 6, and he walks like a spraddled duck. His khaki shorts are too big for him, flapping in the mountain winds, and his khaki shirt emerges at several places from his pants. He is nobody's ideal of a hero. In fact, before the Germans invaded Crete, Batouvas was a quiet, easygoing merchant in a Cretan town...
Luise Rainer packed her things in Manhattan for a return to Hollywood after four years, planned to make it a 15-day trip, cried: "I will jump in every river and eat sausages out of my hand and see the sun come up every morning. Really, that is my ideal of life...
Some of the New Deal's best friends began to wonder last week. Henry Agard Wallace, the man Franklin Roosevelt raised to the Vice-Presidency because he was most nearly the ideal 100% New Dealer-had been dumped by his boss...