Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tunis and Bizerte was the Marshal's colleague, Colonel General Jiirgin von Arnim, at whose heavy face the U.S. got its first look last week (see cut). Arnim might find a soft spot in the positions of the entrenched British First Army, be able to bend back the upper jaws of the trap. Like Rommel, Arnim hoped to hamper Allied concentration, demolish Allied equipment - anything to delay the showdown. After hot hand-to-hand fighting he pushed the British out of the one village (Sedjenane), lost 3,000 men, 30 tanks. The British said that their losses were light...
...Quickly housewives discovered how hard are the facts of rationing: with his 48 points a month, each civilian could buy only three or four cans. Rationing also meant a leveling of U.S. diets: upper-income groups had once eaten the bulk of the nation's meat, low-income groups the bulk of canned goods. Now meat would soon be shared & shared alike-and even beans ("the poor man's food") now had high point values. Precious few foods (examples: olives, mincemeat, popcorn) remained unrationed. Cook books, vegetable gardens and a knowledge of dietetics became more highly...
This week Douglas MacArthur's headquarters issued this communique: "Our air reconnaissance over the past weeks report a constant and growing reinforcement in all categories of enemy strength in the island perimeter enveloping the upper half of Australia. The enemy seems to be concentrating his main effort in preparation on this front...
...What occasionally-to uninformed outsiders-looks like sympathy for Fascism can better be described as conservative or 'upper class' feeling . . . adherence to what the French call the Internationale des Salonnards, or the solidarity existing between members of what is called society with a capital S all over the world. It happens that a large number of American diplomats and State Department officials, by birth, wealth, or election, do 'belong.' It is as natural for them to trust their own kind abroad as it is for me to rely upon the opinion of the newspaper correspondents, which...
...Most Germans do not yet believe that they will lose the war. Only among the upper classes is it said that Germany cannot win. Their policy is first, to defend the European fortress strongly enough to convince "sensible" Allied statesmen that "reasonable" terms with Germany would be cheaper than fighting; second, to exploit the fear of Russian Communism as it has never been exploited before. So far, every suggestion that Germany may lose the war has only stiffened the resistance of the German masses...