Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mail: "Are you [the Government] men or mice. . . . Have we the guts to admit that our policy was dictated by political cowardice? . . . It is not a pretty challenge. Yet, in the language of the Government, it is proper and just. It is a poor defense for cowardice to scream 'Coward...
...producer, sees a gold mine in Curley and sets out to exploit him as the phenomenon of the century. Stinky, quito naturally, will not part with his pot, and Flynn spends three reels trying to make the worm a national figure without breaking the boy's heart. Newspaper headlines scream the daily intimacies of Curley's life. School children wear Curley sweaters. And everyone stops worrying about the war for a minute to sit back dreamily and think about the charming fairy tale of the dancing worm...
...understood and cared what they-not as regiments or armies but as individual men-were like and were trying to do. Their affection grew as, time & again, they saw Pyle force himself to share their dangers and keep on sharing them, despite the increasing fears that sometimes made him scream in his sleep, despite the fact that he could go home any time he wanted...
There the German 170-mm. rifle shoots right across to the beach. (Troops on the beachhead call it the "Anzio Express" because they can hear the scream of its shells passing, hear the report of the gun from the enemy lines, hear the explosion on the shore behind them.) Sometimes the troops see the German guns firing, call on their 105s for counterbattery fire, only to see the U.S. bursts fall far short at maxi mum range. Even 155s sneaked to for ward positions at night have not succeeded in reaching the Germans...
...need for a postwar depression." Far from cringing at the unknown terrors of the future, the optimistic Ancients buoyantly proclaimed that the conversion job, if competently managed, "should be an adventure in prosperity." Cried Author Baruch to Scripps-Howard's Henry J. Taylor: "If the program carries the scream of the American eagle, it is because I feel that the old bird in its own right deserves first attention in the world aviary...