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Quick to cash in on a chance to straighten the critical northern end of the line (which faces Germany's vulnerable northern plain), Montgomery's Twenty-first Army Group pressed them savagely, hurling British, Canadian, Polish and U.S. troops into the Nazi rear guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Straightening the Line | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...White House did not immediately announce Wilson's resignation. Next day, as if nothing had happened, Donald Nelson finally summoned some 150 top WPB men to a long: postponed "harmony" meeting. (Many times, according to Charlie Wilson, Nelson had promised to gather the feuding staff together to straighten out the quarrels, "but always manana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Dear Charlie | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...program went on all through the afternoon. As men came within range of it, you could see their shoulders straighten and their faces relax. It made the whole job easier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio Normandy | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

Marlene Dietrich, currently conquering the otherwise unconquerable Fighting French on the Italian front, was returning from a hospital show when she spotted two French officers struggling with an overturned jeep, promptly put her khaki-colored legs to work; helped straighten things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 5, 1944 | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...argument that we've been having for the past few weeks is that Admiral Halsey has to report to General MacArthur for orders, and that General MacArthur is ranking officer over Admiral Halsey. We would like very much for you to straighten us out on that argument. We do know that one has command of the South Pacific and the other has the Southwest Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1944 | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

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