Word: ness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poisons of a whole nation in travail, of a nation fed on doubt and defeatism, cramped by material and moral starvation. If that was so, why did the Wehrmacht seem so much sicker in Russia than in Italy and Normandy? Was it that the Russians had diagnosed the sick ness more accurately than the Western Allies, been more willing to take chances exploiting the German weakness...
...that soldiers, who had ap proved General Eisenhower's gamble on the weather, retreated from their first optimistic judgments of the invasion,, which were based on the relative ease with which all but one of the scheduled landings were accomplished, the low casualties, the slow ness of German reaction, the virtual absence of the Luftwaffe. Now, as the fight ing progressed, there was still no indica tion that casualties were becoming prohibitive. But there was every indication that the rate must be increasing...
Friends. Voronov was witty, shrewd, well-read. He made friends easily. Among them were Klim Voroshilov, the pudgy ex-miner who became War Commissar, and a young air officer named Alexander Novikov, who seemed destined for great ness. Among them, too, was Joseph Stalin...
...publisher is Dagobert Donald Runes, a Viennese Ph.D. who runs a scholarly little busi ness in Manhattan. Since coming to the U.S. in 1927, he has issued encyclopedias and diction aries of philosophy, literature, child guidance, petroleum, science and technology...
...very short, about ten minutes. Nothing searching was asked. We used to stand outside and load those questions like a Continental's musket, with all the old iron, broken glass and pointed rocks we could find - then march in and fire both barrels. But this was all polite ness and punctilio and namby-pamby questions. Reporters who used to ask questions like rusty razor blades now seemed to figure: with all he has on his shoulders, should I really do this to him? The old rough- & -tumble give-& -take is another wartime casualty...