Word: segments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer a battle for that place alone. The Russians, widening their counter-attacks above and below the site where Stalin's city once stood, now saw the struggle on the Volga "as the center of gravity of the summer campaign." Stalingrad, they said, was no longer a separate segment of the Volga line, but a part of "general combat" from Leningrad to the Caucasus...
...make such decisions are not in the new wartime civilian agencies: Donald Nelson's WPB, Leon Henderson's OPA, Paul McNutt's WMC, William Davis' WLB, the Henry Wallace-Milo Perkins BEW. For each of these men has a single segment of the problem to work on, each has shadowy authority stemming only from the President, and as often as not they are in conflict with one another...
...Silone's cosmography there is also a limbo, the sea-bottom world of the immemorially poor, "stultified by hard labor, underfed, suspicious, cowardly, astute, patient, good or bad according to which way the wind might blow." In a description like an Italian primitive, Silone fixes a segment of this limbo in a tableau on the village square. Peasants crowd their patient, beaten donkeys past a pink-cheeked effigy of St. Anthony of Egypt (patron saint of donkeys) for the ceremony of his blessing. Above stand two stone saints whose faces, under wear of time and weather, have become like...
...career and power had their foundations in the area where he now waits to strike: in North China, Manchuria and the near borders of Russia's Siberia (see map). There were bred Japanese hates, fears and hopes which only war could release. There too, in a vast segment of the earth almost unknown to the U.S. people, swirled forces which deeply involved the U.S. and, at least in Japanese minds, committed the U.S. to a final war for Asia...
Sharpen the Blade. A unique segment of the Japanese army is the Kwantung army, and Itagaki is its master. He and his companions in conquest shaped it for a single purpose: the extension of Japanese sway over northern Asia. The creation of Manchukuo achieved part of this aim; only attack on Russian Asia can complete the scheme...