Word: nesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians are armed, and they have lantern light and candles enough to last perhaps a week. An initialed German revolver leads them to suspect that an officer, who would have the information they seek, is hiding in disguise among their prisoners. Using their peasant shrewdness and stubborn ness against German craft and arrogance, and conducting an increasingly terrible battle against sleep, they set to work to worm the officer out of the group and the information out of the officer...
...cockiness causes him to blurt out a crucial Russian secret - that the counterattacking Russians will cross a river at an "impossible" point by means of a night-built, underwater bridge. (Of the building and the crossing there are some operatically magnificent shots.) In the long run, however, stubborn shrewd ness triumphs over crafty arrogance...
...face of it, neither the tiger tough ness nor the political agility of Premier General Kuniaki Koiso were of any avail. Four times in eight months of office he had staved off the inevitable by reshuffling his cabinet. Now he shuffled across the ancient moat to the Imperial Palace. Be hind the unmortared walls he bowed before Emperor Hirohito, confessed his failures, offered his apologies and the collective resignation of his cabinet...
Fisher has worked as hard as Temple for cooperation among the Christian churches. A better administrator, he may prove more effective than his predecessor in this respect. Another asset is his adroit ness and tact, which he used effectively in piloting through the Church Assembly a complicated measure to reorganize par ish boundaries. And he is no stuffed shirt. He once organized a football team, called "Lambeth United," played on it with his six sons. Another time he appeared in Chester town square, bishop's gaiters & all, grinding a hand organ to help raise money for the Royal Infirmary...
...surprised when pious Gerard, the eldest brother, became so filled with "gnawing self-doubt" and the need to test his strength that he abstained from liquids until his tongue turned black. Sometimes he lay in bed, "filled with mortification . . . contemplating the ugli ness of the name Hopkins"-a loathing from which he never recovered. "Tuncks is a good name," the youth wrote in his diary; "Gerard Manley Tuncks...