Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weariness, hatred and hope whipped the people on. Powerful voices lashed at them. Their own republicans and radicals, long dormant or underground, called for peace and liberty. Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill summoned them to yield swiftly lest their land "be seared and scarred and blackened from one end to the other." The Allied armies spoke through General Dwight Eisenhower: "You can have peace immediately and peace under honorable conditions. . . . Your part is to cease immediately any assistance to German military forces." But from the palace at Rome, where Benito Mussolini's onetime partners struggled to hold...
...much that they caused numerous casualties. Well-disciplined troops ignored the snipers, considering such poor marksmen beneath their notice, but the snipers strained the morale of unseasoned troops. A curious point about Jap snipers: their effectiveness in critical moments suggested that they might not be trying too hard, lest their proficiency lead to stronger measures for their elimination...
...cannot make proper allowance for men sometimes seized by jungle neurosis who begin wielding their machetes wildly or tossing grenades promiscuously across the area. In the tenseness of the long jungle nights, every sound and circumstance takes on the aspect of terror. Exhausted soldiers are forbidden to snore lest they attract the attention of snipers. But the night is full of sound. The call of a dry-throated tree frog becomes the signaling of infiltrating Japs. Pebbles falling from the edge of the foxhole on your helmet may be thrown by Japanese trying to taunt you into showing a silhouette...
...designed to convince Washington and London that Italy had a truly fresh government. It might be the beginning of a bid for a peace with terms, despite the Allied insistence on "unconditional surrender." Many an allied citizen, still troubled by Darlanism in North Africa, had reason to be troubled lest Savoyism crop up in the Italian peninsula. The U.S. State Department would not say whether it classed the House of Savoy as Fascist; neatly it put that issue up to the Allied military command in Italy...
...This is not a time," said he, "for us to indulge in sanguine predictions. Rather should we remind ourselves of St. Paul's Epistle to the Corinthians: Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall...