Word: preceptions
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...conclusion, the Second would probably have annihilated the numerically superior force it had faced. And it had done its job in a hurry, operating under a well-conceived plan. During the night some of its units had traveled better than 100 miles, blacked out. It had followed the precept of its able, profane commander, Major General George S. Patton Jr.: "Hold the enemy by the nose and kick him in the rump until he falls down" (an expurgated version...
...British Empire and from its allies. That great master of language, Winston Churchill, called the Lend-Lease Act "a new Magna Charta, which not only has regard to the rights and laws upon which a healthy and advancing civilization can alone be erected, but also proclaims, by precept and example, the duty of free men and free nations, wherever they may be, to share the responsibility and burden of enforcing them." Concluded Britain's Churchill: "In the name of His Majesty's Government ... I offer to the United States our gratitude for her inspiring act of faith...
...increasing its strength by a lack of voluntary enlistment and that we shall soon have WITHOUT CONSCRIPTION an army of more than 700,000 men for whom we shall not have the necessary equipment for many, many months), but is actually dangerous and violative of every American and constitutional precept and provision...
...serene wandering acrobat named Bobi settles for a couple of years among the farm people of a lonely plateau in Southern France. All he cares about is joy-in useless beauty, in the purity of animals. Carried away by his precept and example, the farmers reduce their planting to what they can eat, turn their animals loose, crowd their fallow land with narcissi, make friends with a stag and his doe. Having set up his earthly paradise, Giono regretfully proceeds in his closing chapters to knock it to pieces. He does so none too logically. Jean Giono has a genius...
...precept and example, "Senator" Young has long since built up within the White House walls a model political organization of which he is the model boss. The White House Correspondents' Association, set up to control the personnel of press conferences, has become under the Boss's rule a powerful dining-out group, whose banquets are often louder & funnier than the Gridiron Club...