Word: maining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jews succeeded in building up a solid coastal fortress, they would then have to make a major strategic decision. Should they lash out at the main center of Arab strength in the hills north of Jerusalem, trying to destroy the Arab armies (which could be steadily reinforced from neighboring Arab states)? Or should the Jews take up a defensive posture on the coast and in Jerusalem, facing endless guerrilla attacks? The Jews' better organization, discipline and tactics had paid off in the early days of the battle for Palestine. But in the long run they knew they could hold...
...that same year, at dawn on the day before Passover, six Nazi tanks and a column of infantry moved into the Warsaw ghetto. They were making a routine roundup for the concentration camps and gas chambers. They penetrated as far as the ghetto's main street. Suddenly, windows and doorways erupted fire; from the housetops, grenades and gasoline were hurled on the tanks. The infantry were decimated; the tank crews burned alive...
...main trouble was currency restrictions. Britons, the chief support of the Casino before the war, now came rarely, gambled little. (The heavy-betting Nazis had supported the Casino during the war.) And well-heeled black marketeers steered clear of the gaming tables; the French collectors keep a close watch on them to spot tax dodgers...
Producer Sam Goldwyn had his say in the Screenwriter: "What bothers me deeply is why the practitioners of the art have failed, on the whole, to become truly creative artists but rather have been content, in the main, to remain little more than glassblowers, huffing and puffing and blowing up slender ideas-their own or others' -into some sort of shape for the screen. What has happened to fresh; honest, vital, original writing for the screen...
...organization of conservative groups is somewhat simpler and less extensive. It is limited to three main divisions, all of which have sprung up within the last year and a half...