Word: nice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy telegram arrived in April: wounded in action. Mr. Geisman is a little sheepish about the way he reacted: he took a streetcar to the Army transport docks, tried to get to the Philippines him self. Says he: "They were nice to me, but they explained that it was doubtful that any boats would be going to Bataan...
This was so big a show that a Vice Marshal of the R.A.F., John Eustace Arthur Baldwin, commanded it. Germany, busy at last on too many fronts, did not have the tools to head it off. When the British planes roared home and crawled down with nice precision on the flare paths of their island airdromes, only 44 were missing. For such a show, those losses were low (4%). After such a show, naturally, the returned air warriors all had a good...
There was nothing unduly nice about the British Commandos, their job, or their first leader. Aging Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes, famed for his raid on a German submarine base at Zeebrugge in World War I, formed and trained the first Commandos in Scotland. His men were to be simply raiders. Their job was to shake Nazi morale, collect information, do what damage they could, and give Britons something to cheer about. Soon the Commandos had a phrase to describe their task: "butcher and bolt...
Airbound. Concrete results of the conference were the exchange of information on air-training problems, the setting up of a Combined Committee on Air Training in North America (in Washington), and a start on standardization of training methods. According to this nice theory, in the future a Chinese navigator might take over in a U.S. plane piloted by a Canadian with a Belgian gunner and a Greek bombardier...
...working out of Harry's little plan provides some nice edge-of-the-seat suspense, and it has some nice sardonic consequences. The trouble is that there are too many consequences. For Playwright Job is overconcerned, more as a wry joker than as a moralist, with showing that getting away with murder can be even worse than not getting away with it; and he continues to make the point long after both Harry and the audience have caught...