Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ground troops had nothing behind them but training camps and the remote and vicarious experiences of Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, New Guinea. The British troops had been tempered by Norway, France, Dunkirk, Greece, Crete, Burma, many blunders and defeats, a great deal of desert and two years against the master, Rommel. The first U.S. phase in Tunisia was a time of learning, a waking up. Said an officer attached to Lieut. General George S. Patton's II Corps: "All this will be great practice for the next show...
Though Figari made his home in Paris from 1925 to 1934, he continued to paint Uruguay. When the 77-year-old master died in Uruguay in 1938, he left some 4,000 paintings, excluding hundreds in Argentine collections. Owned by the Figari family, they are still stored away in the painter's native land...
...Approach. Contradicting most other teachers, who favor fencing flatfooted, Nadi makes his pupils raise the left heel in readiness to spring, insists that they practice before a mirror to correct "a jutting posterior." He tolerates no idle questions from pupils during lessons, describes with admiration how a stern old master taught the late great French fencer Kirchhoffer to relax. The master used to put Kirchhoffer on guard, then go away. After several minutes he would return, feel Kirchhoffer's arm, exclaim : "Your arm is tense. You will never be a fencer...
...sailed to get his share was short, swarthy Captain Andrew Vilicich, master of the sleek, 77-ft. Gallant. Like most West Coast fishermen, Captain Vilicich is a year-round worker, goes after tuna from April to July, sardines from August to March. On his boat he took in $112,000 last year. His crew collected $61,000; he got all the rest. This kind of money has made Fisherman Vilicich the next thing to an economic royalist: he owns his ship (value: $30,000), a share in a San Francisco sardine plant, a comfortable, two-story house, sends...
...diverse kinds of speech: realistic (the reproduction of natural conversation) and satiric (the reductio ad absurdum of natural conversation). Changing keys back & forth, some of the speech sounds wrong; most of it sounds more than right, being both natural and quintessentially comic. If Lewis is not the complete master of such language modulation, he has at least suggested the difficulties and rewards...