Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sicily had begun. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Allied commander in North Africa, had set in motion the largest amphibious military operation ever attempted-not excepting Xerxes' expedition against Greece (1,000 boats, 200,000 men). Now for a few hours he had to live with the bleak inner loneliness that comes to a commander when he has made his cast and must wait for the fall of the dice, wondering whether he has anticipated everything, what will go wrong, how well reality will fit the shape of his intricate, painstaking plans...
This progression is a certainty. The timing and order of its development are highly uncertain. The timing and order, even as they exist today in secret Allied plans, are subject to change with the fortunes of war on the fringe, in Russia, in the air penetration of inner Europe, in the battle of sea supply. All predictions are idle, and they will be even more so as the armies pause to regroup, as commanders pause to reconsider, as the unforeseeable effects of the first blows sink in upon the enemy. All that the public can know is that certain objectives...
...Syria and Cyprus. One approach for these forces is through neutral Turkey to Bulgaria. Another, the only one open unless Turkey permits passage, is by sea and air to Crete, into the Aegean, and thence into Greece. In Greece begins the historic Vardar Valley route of invasion into inner Europe...
...Shade. D.T.C. is the Army's only training theater of operations. Like a battle area, it is organized into two zones: an inner combat zone, itself a fifth larger than Switzerland; an outer communications zone for supply troops. It spreads out over a barren, treeless land of salt lakes, crazily ripped by jagged, granite mountains. Dryness keeps the heat barely endurable: Last week it was 120° in rare patches of shade...
Most observers could tell from a person's appearance whether he was bold or fearful, gay or morose, intelligent or stupid. They were less successful in detecting inner feelings. But with training in sharper observation, the judges' appraisals grew more penetrating; for example, by noting exaggerated mannerisms and subtle hesitations they could determine when boldness merely cloaked a feeling of inferiority...