Word: perfects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans, the Battle of the Atlantic could mean at most the difference between losing this year and winning a temporary stalemate-a stalemate which might give them time to deal with the Russians, time to perfect their continental defenses, time for their Pacific ally to draw off American strength. But the delay and loss meant a great deal to the Allies. Upon this battle turned the whole timing of the difficult, not-yet-begun European campaign, and therefore of the Pacific campaign, which must wait until Hitler is beaten. The Hamburger Fremdenblatt advised the Germans: ". . . Victory demands the utmost perseverance...
...happiness. . . ." Disorder and Glory. The path down which Thomas Jefferson wanted to lead his nation - and to which his words still point- was no easy one. He wanted no paternalistic government to arrange its citizens' lives, no hidebound society to order their thoughts and actions. To him, the perfect state had "a wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another . . . [and] leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement" -to live their lives in as tumultuous, glorious, ambitious a disorder as they please...
...move and shifted a Panzer division to El Hamma. The flankers, men whom Montgomery had used before for shock jobs-the 2nd New Zealanders under Lieut. General Sir Bernard C. Freyberg-drew themselves up for attack. Then, on a Friday afternoon at 4 p.m., came a violent and perfect expression of the use of tactical air force...
...this the owners spend $17.20 per capita a year, reap the profit of their investment in better work by men & women in the fields and mills. Cooperation of the workers is close to perfect. Working for the backers of the medical system they can be told what to do. They conform. There is no slackness...
Chessmen. Timesmen are by no means perfect. Daniel Brigham, in Switzerland, has often been fooled by German propaganda and has repeatedly missed accuracy, spurred by phony tips and his own imagination...