Word: perishables
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of courage which refuses to bandage in front of the firing squad. The driving urge which made men die rather than surrender to Everest, or perish in the white wastes of the Antarctic while trying to bend the very Pole to their driving will...
When Hitler bellowed, "Moscow must be finished off at any price," Zhukov answered in the Biblically inspired words of Russia's famed 13th century hero Alexander Nevsky: "Whosoever comes against us with the sword shall perish by the sword. Such is the law of the Russian land, and such it will always be." Following the tactics of General Gallieni, who defended Paris against the Germans in 1914, Zhukov requisitioned every automotive vehicle he could find in Moscow, including the Kremlin limousines, and put a scratch army of volunteers on the Moscow-Mozhaisk road. He brought the Siberian army across...
...force that for 22 years held China together. Threatened with death when the Young Marshal kidnaped him in Sian in the famed 1936 incident, Chiang refused to make any concessions: "If I should try to save my life today and forget the welfare of the nation . . . the nation will perish while I live," he told the Young Marshal. When the Japanese attacked in full assault in 1937, Chiang retreated behind the Yangtze gorges to Chungking, and fought with no help from the U.S. or any ally, doggedly sure that eventually the West would stand at his side. His stubbornness tied...
...French circus life is a much-besought tamer of tigers (Jan Farrand), who, fearing the future, gazes into the crystal ball of the magician (Louis Jourdan). In two flash-forwards, the ball reveals that on her next birthday -whether she marries a juggler or a millionaire-she must perish in a steamship disaster. Finally, because his own future is the one thing the ball lacks the power to foretell, she marries the magician, who adores...
...Soviet Union is no weaker than the U.S. Any adventure connected with unleashing a new world war will inevitably end badly for the aggressor. What will perish will not be world civilization . . . but that rotten social system with its imperialist basis soaked in blood...