Word: scorch
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...picture's action is not as expert as its characterizations. Towards the end it begins to fall apart. The escaped prisoners whip up a very well-filmed insurrection among French villagers and lead a retreat to join a highly fictional guerrilla army."Let's scorch the earth!" cries implausible Housewife Emma Dunn. They do-and a good deal of the picture's force and persuasiveness go up in smoke. Otherwise, The Cross of Lorraine (which takes its name from its undergrounders' Guallist password) is one of the best war films that has been made...
...must sell at a ceiling price, refused to pay the high prices asked for cattle on the hoof. Cattlemen, blessed with the best pasture land in years because of the drenching spring rains, were content to let stock graze and fatten. Only hopeful note: when the hot drought days scorch the pasture lands, cattlemen will stampede to the markets, easing shortages in thousands of city butcher shops...
...that the Allies are not fulfilling their promises of aid, that U.S. forces live like kings while Chinese troops grovel like beggars. Whereas the Japanese economic tactic was once plunder, it is now construction and trade. The Japanese armies lash out, not to demolish the Chinese armies, but to scorch Free Chinese earth, as in the Lake District. There are also appeals to the future: whereas the Allies have promised to give up extraterritoriality after the war, Tojo's government announced that on March 30 Japan would give up concessions in Amoy, Hankow, Soochow, Hangchow, Tientsin...
Ships & Manganese. When they lost the Ukraine, the Russians did not scorch everything, and the Germans managed to get a number and variety of plants back into production. Last March, when the Ukraine was only partly occupied, Berlin counted 480,000 industrial firms in the eastern territories to be transferred after the war to German war veterans. Many important plants were actually producing for the Germans...
...Chinese fronts have gone lean and inglorious. Once there was terror, urgency, bombardment, earth to scorch and an enemy to hate. Now there is only hunger...