Word: relighting
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...kinds had to enter into the causative picture. Most men experienced fear as they approached the beach. Some tell you of their fear of being afraid and of feeling relief and exhilaration as soon as they went into actual combat. But new attacks, new near bomb hits would relight sudden fear. . . . As the weeks passed, hope left most of these men. . . . Soon they were sure that . . . they were expendable, doomed. . . . Fatigue wore them down, painful aching fatigue that they felt could never be relieved or cured...
...dead. Desolate and a bit selfish, she marries with half a heart. Then the grave?which was a living one, a prison camp?gives up its dead. She finds it in her to leave husband and child, to conclude, on a veranda in Fiesole, that she was wise to relight her candle after fate had snuffed it. The story is straightforwardly written out, with honest British cliches of word, action and philosophy. It is another young woman's (Miss Thompson is 24) post-bellum retort. It will please many, but to this reviewer the younger characters seem wooden things from...