Word: stab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rickety table, with flash bulbs popping and microphones thrust at his face, Henry Wallace said stiffly, belligerently: "I am in this fight to the finish." What did he think of the President's feeble endorsement of him, which some of his own followers were calling a stab in the back? "The President did all I expected him to do. I told him that in justice to himself and myself there should be nothing in the nature of dictation...
Burden of the Victors. In short, what the Italians wanted was full nationhood, and they wanted it while their late enemies were still fighting their late Allies, the Germans, on Italian soil. Such demands inevitably irritated Frenchmen who had not forgotten Mussolini's stab in the back, Britons and Americans whose comrades had lately fallen under Italian fire, Greeks and Yugoslavs whom Italians had lately robbed...
...Rome, he had himself presented to the Pope as le president, held a press conference, implied willingness to write off Mussolini's "stab in the back" as a historic error for which the Italian people are not responsible. De Gaulle's point: postwar France will be postwar Italy's friend...
...Finally he said what all were waiting to hear: "In view of all these factors, I think we had better go ahead." The die was cast. The meeting had taken just half an hour. With one characteristically casual sentence General Eisenhower loosed the fateful lightning that will stab and flicker over Europe until Nazi Germany is down. Similar conferences had been held twice a clay for three days. On the preceding Saturday the operation had even been ordered, then canceled again almost immediately, when the weather took a sudden turn for the worse. That, even the calm Tedder...
...near Hill 609. One of the fellows ahead got hit. We could hear him moaning and two medics tried to reach him, but they could not because of the enemy machine-gun fire raking the area. The poor guy kept calling and two other medics tried to take a stab at it, but they couldn't reach him, either...