Word: sweatingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acute directorial touch: a saboteur, who has wrecked a food train, comes home for dinner; when he takes off his jacket, he reveals a slight, honest detail rarely seen in U.S. movies: the stain of underarm sweat on his shirt sleeves...
...dead, seven wounded, six captured. The picture reflects their painstaking work, and a fine job of film editing makes it a work of art as well as cinematic journalism. And, unlike the average Hollywood epic, it manages to be damned convincing because it portrays battle as a matter of sweat as well as blood and tears...
...year ago today," he said, "the dimming lights of Bataan's forlorn hope fluttered and died. . . ... Our flag lies crumpled, its proud pinions spat upon in the gutter; the wrecks of what were once our men and women groan and sweat in prison toil; our faithful Filipino wards, 16,000,000 souls, gasp in slavery...
...passed judgment: "Good guys." Said Walter Reuther: "We're going home tired in body but determined to give the boys in our fighting army the fighting equipment they need. The boys in the services have plenty of guts. We're determined to back them with plenty of sweat...
When Winston Churchill in 1940 promised the British people "nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat," he was as much the voice of Britain as was the roar of Spitfires over the chalk cliffs of Dover. Last fortnight, when he offered the world a British way toward peace with security (TIME, March 29), he voiced the yearnings not only of his own countrymen but of all the Allied peoples. Among them were many differences, some deep and wide; but common to them all was a desire to see at least the outlines of a better world...