Word: unflinchingness
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The wind which brought the subdued rumble of the city . . . and the whistles of launches returning to the warships passed over the dismal electric bulbs at the ends of blind alleys and lanes; around them crumbling walls emerged from empty darkness, revealed with all their blemishes by that unflinching light...
But the times were not peaceful and neither Anthony Eden nor his Greek hosts were in a very poetical frame of mind. Adolf Hitler's great southeastern push had already shoved some 150,000 Nazi troops and 1,700 bombers down through Bulgaria to the very edges of Greece...
As for Britain and Anthony Eden's "unflinching aid" to Greece, it was announced in London that Italian military equipment captured in Libya was being rushed to Greece, but the whereabouts of Britain's Army of the Nile was still unknown.
Last week the London Times eulogized Prime Minister Winston Churchill as follows: "No man ever took office at a more difficult time. . . . No man, not even the younger Pitt, has ever had to sustain a greater series of military disasters. He has concealed nothing. He has endured everything with unflinching...
The week's most penetrating summation came from the Rabbinical Assembly's retiring president: ruddy, usually genial Dr. Max Arzt of Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary. Said he to the 100 assembled rabbis: "I submit that the world cataclysm of our day powerfully, if tragically, confirms the...