Word: packed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first repelled, then fascinated by the shout of a sweating sergeant to his bleeding, hesitant platoon at Chateau-Thierry: "Come on, you - , do you want to live forever?" When a detachment shoves off for service on a foreign shore, oldtimers who have been left out-both officers and men-pack their duffle and carry it down to the station or dock, hoping that someone may have to drop out at the last minute...
...Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox) for the organization of the first full divisions in Marine Corps history, two outfits especially designed for swift thrusts into troubled areas. They are "triangular," like the Army's streamlined divisions: three regiments of heavily armed infantry, three battalions of 75-mm. pack howitzers, one of 1555, and 72 tanks...
...country through which infantry, engineers and pack-mule armament had to make their way inch by soggy inch...
...half-breed Louvette (Paulette Goddard) woo the heroine's wayward brother (Robert Preston) with such primitive verbal caresses as: "I eat your heart out," or "My heart seeng lack a bird." When the shy Texas Ranger (Gary Cooper) casually rides his cayuse right into the heart of a pack of trouble in the north woods, the blonde heroine (Madeleine Carroll) tells him, "Texas must be heaven." "It will be," says he, "when you get there." Climax both of plot and of corny dialog arrives as the small outpost of Mounties, cut to ribbons by a ruthless attack...
...Robinson, whose portrait of German Scientist Ehrlich entrenched him in the field of cinema biography, growls pleasantly through Reuter's tribulations. He has to buck the artistic irresponsibility of his poet-partner Max (Eddie Albert) and the indifference of rubber-skinned bankers before he proves that pigeons can pack the news from Brussels to Aachen quicker than the fleetest stagecoach...