Word: unitization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calendars. In the U.S. on the page for each month we usually put a 'Varga Girl' or maybe rural scenes, or advertisements. On all the German calendars are beautiful color pictures of the German Army in action or in training: such thrilling scenes as a German Panzer unit crushing and running down a group of British Tommies who are shown screaming and clutching their stomachs as they are machine-gunned to death. Or perhaps it is a German Pionier Gruppe assaulting a Russian pillbox with flamethrowers and dynamite...
...statement issued by Robert K. Root, dean of the Princeton faculty, early in November. Expressing his college's eagerness at that time to revert to its prewar calendar, he said only that such a move would be taken as soon as the end of the Navy V-12 unit made conformity to a Navy schedule no longer necessary. Thus Yale is the only member of the big three to have released a concrete reconversion program...
...first night one of the worst things that could befall an island of besieged happened to Bastogne: the Germans captured its complete surgical unit. Bastogne's wounded would have to get along without amputations, without fracture splints, without skilled care...
Through Wednesday and Thursday Bastogne battled almost continuously on its perimeter, suffered tortures in the overcrowded town. Shells poured in from all sides. Some 3,000 civilians huddled in cellars with the wounded. Food was running low-the Germans had also captured a quartermaster unit. Ammunition was dwindling-an ordnance unit had been taken too. Gasoline was down to tricklets -the Fire Brigade, to save fuel, did not keep engines running, clanked off to hot spots on cold motors...
Next day the Communist Unità gave out a screech that smothered Cantachiaro's crow: "A weekly paper which calls itself satiric and anti-Fascist printed yesterday the complete text of Mussolini's speech, thus offering readers a most beautiful piece of Fascist propaganda. . . . This is an act of evident collaboration ... an act of sabotage. . . . The paper which does it must be suppressed and the responsible person arrested...