Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...curly-haired, handsome Max, D.F.C., is one of Britain's aces. In London, at week's end Czecho-Slovak President Eduard Benes announced that young Max would get another decoration: the Czech War Cross. That made two things Benes and the Beaver shared in common-a high regard for Wing Commander Aitken and mounting impatience for a second front...
...have such a name. The Hill of Jesus has nothing to do with the flight into Egypt or the hermit fathers of the desert about whom Flaubert wrote The Temptation of St. Anthony and Anatole France wrote Thais. The Hill owes its name to the fact that Mohammedans regard Jesus, like Mohammed, as an authentic prophet. The Arabic form Eisa is so popular among Egyptians that they often give it to children, geographic locations, farms, and even cabarets...
...nine years he worked at his exacting Tokyo job, which he conceived of as a great opportunity to bring about genuine Japanese-U.S. friendship. His appeal was to the peaceful Japanese whose interests were in international trade and, therefore, amity. He won the high personal regard of countless Japanese, and returned it in full measure. But months before Pearl Harbor he told Washington that his reports had to be brief; Japan's military dictators were operating in dark secrecy. Then, for more than six months after Pearl Harbor, he was obliged to bide his time in Tokyo while...
...staff in Tokyo on May 30. Said he: "I have not an iota of doubt of our ultimate victory in this war of nations. I myself, during these past months, have had plenty of time to survey the ruins of a life's work as an architect might regard, after an earthquake and fire, the ruins of a great building he had conceived and endeavored to erect with a solidarity that might permanently withstand the elements. Alas, the castle has crumbled about us. It is not a happy vision...
Professor Kohn has discussed the war situation in regard to the Near East, Russia, and the Battle for the Atlantic stating that many fail to realize the extent of the war. He has interspersed his lectures with news bulletins from the many and distant fronts of the war against the Axis...