Word: strengthed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Monty. Eisenhower has a few words of appraisal on both the strength and weakness of his first lieutenant, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery. His holding of the Caen hinge position was "masterly," but the old master was slow at the tape-the offensive launched from Caumont did not jump off soon enough. Emphatically, Eisenhower did not want Monty (or anybody else) as commander of all ground forces; he is sure that he did right in retaining that control himself...
...least officially) of fascists. Despite public political friendship, Figl does not get on well with Renner. Unlike Socialist Renner, who comes from a bourgeois family but has lived it down, Figl comes from peasant stock and tries to live up to it. He has a peasant's stubborn strength and stubborn limitations, along with the rural Austrian's strong belief in the efficacy of wine and prayer...
...Washington last week to sell Argentina's case was Perón's special representative, General Carlos von der Becke. The Argentine ex-Chief of Staff, who had backed the Nazis to win World War II, now asked for U.S. arms to bring Argentina's fighting strength up to that of Lend-Leased Brazil. (His admiration for U.S. weapons was not so cynical as some supposed; the effectiveness of U.S. planes and tanks had startled him out of his pre-D-day conviction that "Europe never could be invaded.") General Eisenhower received Von der Becke courteously, looked...
...Home-Ola is no architectural gem. What it lacks in beauty, it makes up in strength. Cajun Jack Willis claims that Home-Ola's plywood walls have proved 20 times stouter than conventional walls, will withstand a 125 mile-an-hour wind...
...country-but without once relaxing his regal prerogatives. Nor does he wish to accept too much help from someone who is not only a foreigner but also a lowly woman. To hold and secure her job, Anna has to perform daily miracles of common sense, dignity, humor, forbearance and strength of character. As played by Irene Dunne and Britain's Rex Harrison (in his first Hollywood movie), the clash of these two kinetic personalities should be more fun for an adult audience than the standard maneuverings toward the classical clinch...