Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wehrmacht continued World War II by other means is the theme of this novel by Austrian-born Erwin Lessner. Author Lessner, 46, is an anti-Nazi from way back. For years he kept a jump ahead of the Gestapo in Berlin, Czechoslovakia and Denmark. Trapped in Norway in 1940, he was "questioned" by the Gestapo for 35 days; it was seven months before he was able to walk again. In 1941 he managed to reach the U.S. Phantom Victory is partly ferocious satire, partly deadly earnest foreboding, but throughout it proclaims Author Lessner's ruthlessly simple conviction...
...usual, the Fishers kept their actual plans to themselves. Detroit's guess: the Fisher plans are still nebulous, and formation of the companies at this time is merely to protect the Fisher name. But it was the first move of the Fishers to back up their promise to jump into the auto industry...
...never schematic, and yet never a mere miscellaneous grab bag of historical information, is Van Wyck Brooks's book constructed. Its individual word-portraits-of Alexander Wilson, the dour ornithologist and bird-painter, of Davy Crockett, teller of tall backwoods tales, who thought they made a book "jump out of the press like a new dollar from a mint-hopper," of Fenimore Cooper, whose father gave him 23 farms in New York State when the future novelist was expelled from Yale-are equal to Brooks's best...
...last time TIME & LIFE saw Paris, it was from the back window of a French Renault - last car in a baggage-bulging cavalcade of seven in which 24 of our news people, a child with chicken pox, and two dogs lit out of the city just one jump ahead of the Nazis...
...activity. It is also the most harrowing agony a soldier can endure. Belden believes that the U.S. soldier is the best trained he has ever seen, "but no one seems to have taken the proper trouble to introduce [him] to the uncertainty of war. . . . Men study maps and practice jumping off landing boats; but when . . . a Salerno comes along, they fly out of their boats into the uncertain darkness ahead and refuse to jump, or jump ashore and [then] jump back . . . and have to be exhorted by chaplains to advance into the unknown...