Word: utters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Breaks. But without the planning, and above all, without the breaks, it might have been the greatest setback to Allied arms since Dunkirk. Ship crews and assault troops alike, Morison explains, were in most cases only half-trained. When it came to combat, nine out of ten were utter greenhorns. With huge fleets committed far from home, heavy weather on D-day might have been fatal. The weather was in fact generally calm and clear, although high seas (15ft. surf) had swept the Moroccan coast almost until the morning of the landings...
...party's intention to be a permanent part of Canada's political landscape, CCF Leader M. J. Coldwell said: "I cannot say whether the Conservatives will be swallowed by reactionary Liberals, or vice versa. . . . [But] all talk of our party coalescing or collaborating with another party is utter nonsense...
Granting, as one must, that there are two valid sides to this very complex argument, it serves no useful purpose to far the Crimson with a taint it does not deserve, nor to assume the utter indefensibility of a position merely because one does not happen to endorse it. Barry Golomb...
...asset side of having a politician as Secretary of State in a time of crisis was Byrnes's handling of Henry Wallace's stab-in-the-back. One French diplomat who has watched Byrnes for a year made a point: "Never in our hearing did he utter a word of criticism of either his President or of Wallace. That showed me he was a loyal man-but also, which is perhaps better-that he was a damn smart politician. Politician is a word which has got a bad connotation in many parts of the world. But there...
Kathleen Winsor became a banned author in Sheffield, England, but no prestige attached to it: the city fathers deplored Amber as utter rubbish...