Word: skeletonization
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...hostages out of thousands of unwary small business men, and virtual economic prisoners of hundreds of thousands of its won trapped members cannot mortally attack dictatorialism in other quarters. The paradox of such an attack and refusal to cooperate with Soviet labor would only be another A.F. of L. skeleton to file and forget were it not for the dangerous international repercussions involved...
Rundstedt's job has been to put muscle on a defense skeleton. He was lucky in that his defense area had magnificent communications. It was criss-crossed with highways and railroads (see map, p. 29), dotted with airdromes, some snatched from the French, some built by the Germans in their months of hesitancy after Dunkirk. With these advantages Rundstedt has organized a fluid defense, well but tressed on its front by strong points, backed by forces that could be whipped to any threatened point...
BOWEN'S COURT - Elizabeth Bowen -Knopf ( $3.50 ) . Elizabeth Bowen, excruciatingly sensitive novelist, who has stalked many a ghost in the subcellars and skeleton closets of the mind (The Death of the Heart; To the North), in this book turns from fiction to ponder upon the dead bones of her ancestors. Bowen' s Court is 1) the history of the rise & fall of the Anglo-Irish gentry, as exemplified in ten generations of Bowens; 2) the story of Novelist Bowen's passionate attachment to Bowen's Court, the square, empty, echoing 18th-Century family mansion which "like...
...Plebeian Rommel had no place in the skeleton post-war Reichswehr, and his frustrated longing for war turned him very early to the Nazis. He met Hitler in Württemberg, became a Storm Troop leader, joined a murderous raid against the Socialists and Communists of Coburg, a raid which Hitler, in Mein Kampf, singled out as the turning point in his career. Thereafter Rommel headed Hitler's personal police, the SS, and traveled with the leader and his adjutant, Bruckner, sharing with Bruckner the honor of sleeping in front of Hitler's bedroom door. When Hitler shook...
...Plebeian Rommel had no place in the skeleton post-war Reichswehr, and his frustrated longing for war turned him very early to the Nazis. He met Hitler in Württemberg, became a Storm Troop leader, joined a murderous raid against the Socialists and Communists of Coburg, a raid which Hitler, in Mein Kampf, singled out as the turning point in his career. Thereafter Rommel headed Hitler's personal police, the SS, and traveled with the leader and his adjutant, Bruckner, sharing with Bruckner the honor of sleeping in front of Hitler's bedroom door. When Hitler shook...