Word: impendingness
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It seems that the ''dogfaces' " principal gripes are: 1) impending return to overseas duty; 2) demobilization; 3) civilian friction.
Cuba was tense. New President Ramon Grau San Martin, elected last June by an honest vote, used his popular mandate like a machete. He retired many of Cuba's swaggering Army officers, announced he would also eliminate Cuba's cherished botellas (literally, bottles-soft government jobs). Some Cubans...
The real significance of the new offensive was that it marked the impending close of the Baltic campaign. Soon the Russians would have eight whole army groups north of the Carpathians with nothing left to attack but East Prussia and the line from that province through Warsaw to the upper...
While Allied leaders cried to their people that the war had not yet been won, that production must go on, no man could miss the signs of impending crackup. All in all, it was a fitting week for Winston Churchill to pay his sardonic respects to Adolf Hitler:
At week's end, Charles de Gaulle flew back to Algiers. He and his associates seemed pleased with themselves, talked confidently of impending gains for the Gaullists. London expected negotiations to begin immediately between the British Government and the Gaullist Government for some new and broadened form of recognition...