Word: intact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went on to the church. Light was shining through a hole in the roof. Below it an unexploded 500-pound bomb lay on the floor. Some American soldier breathed heavily in my ear: "God, that was a miracle." We turned around to look at the altar. It was still intact...
...such a sea of hemorrhages. Bruises were almost uncountable. Their autopsy showed that the entire body, from head to toes, had been pummeled and beaten, on the ears and neck, forehead and temples, arms, hands, chest,' kidneys, thighs, legs. Scarcely a spot was untouched; hardly a blood vessel intact. The doctors noted that many a bruise was the exact width of a police club...
...March he did get in with his division, intact once more. At Gafsa and El Guettar, on hills held and bloodied by the men of the 1st, Terry Allen and his division did superlatively well (TIME, May 24). After he had taken Gafsa, he was ordered to "hold" the town as a supply base for the British Eighth Army. "But the orders don't say anything about what steps to take to hold it," said Allen with a grin. So he attacked...
...those are the surprises. The rest of the time these actors go corky on their lines, overact operatically or sit and talk. Above all they talk. A tremendous effort has been made in this adaptation to keep Author Hemingway's characters intact. But the adaptation is too literary, too theatrical...
Repaired plants or plants still intact can produce other weapons-until these plants too are bombed & bombed again. But the weapons will be late. They will be fewer. At some as yet undetermined point in this cycle of loss, they will be too late and too few. The coming of that point, with its attendant disintegration within Germany, may cause a sudden collapse of the Axis. If not, this war will be won as other wars have been won, by battle in Russia and on the invasion fronts of Europe...