Word: reveal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which the former were cheated out of an England even half "fit for heroes." That out of the way, Graves and young (25-year-old) Alan Hodge get to work on the newspaper files. They remind us that Alcock and Brown flew the Atlantic eight years before Lindbergh did; reveal the British press showing "widespread disagreement . . . about even so recent and important an event as the German reoccupation of the Rhineland: according to a large body of opinion it took place in March 1934, not 1936." On the evils of the Versailles Treaty and post-war diplomacy, the authors...
...British Government considers them unfit for national U.S. distribution is another British propaganda mystery. Acted for the most part by the ordinary, everyday citizens of England with the assistance of an occasional pro, they reveal without exaggeration or undue flag-waving a nation grimly going about the business of fighting for its life...
Rarer is the separate starring vehicle which Shaw devised for himself. This is an eight-minute prologue in which the wily, bewhiskered old Celt appears on the screen to reveal that while the rest of the democratic world has been sleeping, he has been building his own arsenal of democracy. Impudent, goading, compassionate, it is a masterful bit of acting, unsurpassed by the performances which follow. Excerpts...
...more than likely to be drawn quite differently before and after the fact. Prior to the fall of France, very little was made known about Admiral Darlan to the Allied press save that he was colorless but competent. The archives of London and Washington now reveal France's No. 1 sailor as quite a different personality...
...went, last week, back & forth, push & counter-push. These giant raids brought out important facts of strategy. In their hasty withdrawal the British had shown the Germans exactly what the Germans wanted the raid to reveal: the British plan of leading the attacker on to Matrûh. On the other hand, the Germans had shown the British that the Nazi attack-broad-fronted, wary of bombardment from the sea, in fanned columns which could flow around hard cores of resistance-would be harder to stop when it came than the Italians' Indian-file dress parade had been...