Word: resistant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simply record that the ex-Kaiser stated the opinion that if the Western European nations had any sense they would patch up a peace of some kind and band together to resist the westward march of Bolshevism from Russia. We record, too, our conviction that the ex-Kaiser, for once in a long and none too brilliant life, made a profoundly wise remark...
With this speech Major Carlson will show uncensored pictures of the Japanese invasion which he has gathered while spending a year and a half as special observer with the Chinese regular and guerilla units. So completely has he lived with the Chinese forces during their attempts to resist Japan's "New Order in East Asia" that the British Ambassador in China has described him as the best-informed western military observer in China...
Well she might. For if any outline of the Allied Supreme War Council's spring strategy could be drawn last week, it was this: to continue holding Germany in a vise by land and sea; to help Finland resist Russia in the north; to make that resistance stronger, and at the same time tighten the vise-grip on Germany, by "formidably" threatening Russia on the southeast...
Herbert Gorman cannot resist trying to comment as well as to present, and his comments usually fall short of their subject. But because he has a good deal to present that has not been presented before, including several excellent photographs, his book is by no means without value...
...offensive, capturing tanks and armored cars. Russian casualties mounted. The Finns, too, left many dead, but the Russian push was so disorganized that the Finns began to talk of the battle as the "biggest victory" of the war. Foreigners in Helsinki, who had doubted that the Finns could resist a determined drive to flank the Mannerheim Line, were amazed at the strength of the Finnish mobile defense. To the Finns it was just another example of the efficacy of their Commander in Chief's standing order to his Army: "Hit them in the belly." Well does Field Marshal Mannerheim...