Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pious abbreviations reaching far deeper than his factual knowledge of events. "Certainly it becomes clearer and clearer that the dream memory of man, formless but shaping itself ever anew after the manner of sagas, reaches back to catastrophes of vast antiquity, the tradition of which, fed by recurrent but lesser similar events, established itself among various peoples and produced that formation of coulisses which forever lures and leads onwards the traveler in time. . . . We have sounded the well of time to its depths, and not yet reached our goal: the history of man is older than the material world which...
...French North Africa in November 1942. He has no specific battle experience remotely comparable to that of Britain's Generals Montgomery and Alexander, or such U.S. generals as Bradley and Patton. What he has got is the proved ability to work generals - along with airmen, Navy men and lesser soldiers by the million...
...sitting at his desk in London, Jan Smuts's thoughts are first of all on the coming shape of Europe, in which he foresees Russia as the colossus, France as a lesser nation, Britain in need of a fresh orientation of power. He says, emphasizing his words by drawing, with his index finger, neat holistic circles in the air: "The axis of the new world, the greatest new development today, is the cooperation of America and the Commonwealth...
Andrés Ignacio Menéndez, the Dictator's Minister of War, fell heir to the government, appointed some new Ministers, but had yet to clean out all Martinez' men from Cabinet and lesser posts. He gave general amnesty to all political prisoners, freed the press, agreed to keep power only until elections could be held. Exiles and refugees hoped that the heirs of the Dictator had no dictatorial ideas of their own. They flocked back to El Salvador, determined to give their country a democratic government...
While they were about it, the Russians made awards representing various lesser degrees of glory to 51 other U.S. warriors, including 16 Navy men and ten of the Merchant Marine...