Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pierre Laval sensed that brutal, stocky Joseph Darnand was seeking notoriety and power, thought he could use such a man. Laval sent Darnand to Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler, who received him magnificently. Since then, Darnand has nurtured his shock troopers, recently showed off their skill in thuggery to a group of Nazi experts visiting Vichy...
Reading aerial pictures requires even more skill than shooting them. The best interpreters can identify new types of aircraft on the ground, and name enemy ships, from a photograph with a scale of one to 10,000. They can often read bomb damage accurately from pictures taken six miles up. In Sicily, the Army found the photogrammetrists' interpretations 100% accurate...
Pilots and gunners on both sides fought with rage and skill, called every device of air war into play. At week's end the Allied airmen had won victories, had inflicted grave injuries, and had paid heavily...
...teeth of war. But it produces only a plausible symbol, not a flesh-&-blood human being. Sam is made too articulate about what ails him and not convincing enough about why he alters. Nor does the play, which distrusts the shock tactics of melodrama, possess the skill to be vivid for long without...
...tomorrow night when the HARVARD SERVICE NEWS opens its winter competition at 7:30 o'clock. The portals to the building at 14 Plympton Street will be open to all men, civilian or V-12, who want to learn a little journalism, acquire business experience, or develop some photographic skill...