Word: unclearly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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True or false (and at week's end the truth was unclear), even the report of the strike came to Curran as a bitter blow. For it severely prejudiced two pleas which he had just made to top officials in Washington. One plea was that the Navy remove its gun crews from merchant ships and put common sailors in charge of the guns...
...integrity of the German front. The one way the Red Army can decisively smash the German position in Russia is to crash through the great lateral Smolensk-Kursk-Kharkov-Crimea railway system into relatively ill-defended positions behind it. This week the drive was still young, the results unclear. In any case it kept thousands of Germans pinned down...
Reunion in France (M.G.M.) is a Joan Crawford version of the fall of France. As history is made, Miss Crawford looks big-eyed, weeps, sighs, registers disillusionment, at length throws her 'elegantly gowned self into the French underground movement-all with unclear effect. Whatever it is, it is not France...
Without comment the Beards, stubbornly opposed to imperialism, to internationalism, to war for unclear ideals, reprint President Roosevelt's brooding question of April 14, 1942: "I want a name for the war. I haven't had any very good suggestions. Most of them are too long. My own thought is that perhaps there is one word that we could use for this war, the word 'survival' . . . survival of a hemisphere. . . . And when it comes to cleaning up the mess at the end of this war, after the Axis is defeated, we will have again a Hemispheric...
...Russia, but his first moves were tentative and met a rough Russian answer. It looked as if the Japanese Army were going to try to knock China out of the war, and yet the campaign seemed, at least to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's plane-blind forces, unclear and not yet full-blown. It looked as if the Japanese Navy were re-forming for another reach at Australia's screen, but the concentration was not yet completed. There was renewed activity in the Mediterranean, but it was not clear whether either side would dare to start anything...