Word: utterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ornito in Italy Sir Walter laboriously helped a badly wounded colonel, far bigger than himself, across a thousand yards of rocky ground under heavy fire to an aid station. At the islands of Solta, Mljet and Braĉ off the Dalmatian coast his "utter contempt for artillery and mortar fire had a very valuable and steadying effect and won for him the respect and devotion of the men of the Commandos" -as well it might. Heirless Sir Walter was old enough to be their grandfather...
...appeared fit and trim as a new Stormovik. Tadeusz Romer, former Polish Ambassador to Moscow, now back again with Premier Mikolajczyk, had not seen Joseph Stalin since early 1943. Romer found Stalin looking "years younger." ?>e-hind the tobacco haze the old revolutionist could well shrug his shoulders, and utter his characteristic-rejoinder: "Pochemu niet...
...soldiers could be more resolute. I have seen them ordered to attack a strong point almost impregnable to infantry. They filed off without a word. Many died in that sortie. The survivors did not utter one word of private criticism of the task they had been...
...demoralization" was fantastic. It was believable only as arising in part from the long-smoldering crisis in Germany's High Command which exploded last week (see The Enemy). It was in Russia that Hitler's "fight for every mile" policy had been reduced to the most utter and glaring bankruptcy. It is hard for a commander to follow orders that he knows to be ridiculous. If he knows there is trouble where the orders come from, it is only human and natural for him to hope they will be changed...
...college instructor, with a lieutenant colonel's crown-and-pip on his shoulders and an insufferable habit of talking down to his classes. But he was then what he is now, a completely dedicated professional, soldier, with a superb sense of the big things of war, and an utter contempt for the small...