Word: mottoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week Colonel Svoboda was an army chief, awaiting orders to join the great Red offensive. Waiting with him was his Russian-armed Czech army, tough, confident, thirsty for revenge. The army's heart was in the green valleys and forests of its native land. The army's motto was on its banner: Verni Zustaneme-We Remain Faithful...
Says Headmaster Keep: "It's a great success. The boys are thoroughly serious. They expect to serve in the armed forces." Berkshire's motto is Pro vita, non pro schola discimus ("We learn not for school but for life...
...Churchill: You are an inspiring example of the motto of our great President Thomas Jefferson...
...their advance last week the Allies captured German documents detailing orders to evacuating troops to take all the equipment they could carry with them. These orders said that to Italy, "the passport is a gun." Those words, for the Allies as well as the Germans, could stand as a motto of the Sicilian campaign...
...office of Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., aboard his flagship at headquarters in the South Pacific, hangs a new, unofficial motto for the U.S. Navy, sent to him by Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz:* "The Lord gave us two ends to use, one to think with and one to sit with. The war depends on which we choose -heads we win, tails we lose...