Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cites the Battle of Marathon he forgets that it is the classic example of the "double envelopment," a military term meaning that you let the enemy dig his own grave and then shovel him in. One cannot discard the defense as valueless with a scoff and a biting remark. Colonel Kernan disregards the two most sensational defenses of modern times--those of Russia in 1812 and 1941--which did not develop into counter-attacks until the time was ripe...
That last remark was what made Congressmen really wince...
...kill a Jap with your yap." That was the kind of rude remark the U.S. citizen was writing to his Congressmen last week. Rarely, if ever, had contemporary Congresses seen such mail. The letters were blistering. The average citizen blamed his Congressman for every defeat from Pearl Harbor to Java, and told him so in writing that scorched the paper...
They surprised and overpowered four Italian garrisons, destroyed huge quantities of war matériel, then headed back south with their prisoners. Triumphantly last week they quoted the remark of an Italian prisoner after a similar De Gaullist raid on Kufra last year: "Only those French devils could have done...
...Remark of the season (Holden to Lamour): "I don't want a glass of milk; I want...