Word: utters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Battle For Survival. The retreat was not yet a rout: the Teutonic habit of obedience was still firm, the armies' strength was still great, the commanders still able. But, however masterly, it was a retreat. Momentary survival, a postponement of utter defeat, might lie somewhere in the rear. But victory could not lie there. Victory lay in the opposite direction...
...comparatively few dissenters in Russia), had bridged the crevasses that for 25 years Bolsheviks have tried to open between Russian believers and nonbelievers. Once more the peasant trudging in from the land and catching the sunlight flash on the gilt onion "domes of Moscow's remaining churches could utter the traditional invocation with the traditional tenderness...
Reverse Pyrge. Was the South really going to secede again-this time from the Democratic Party? Not even Joe Bailey thought that probable. "I have been thinking over the burden of that speech for a long time," he said afterward, "and I felt that the time had come to utter it. The important thing is not that the announcement was made. The important thing was that, for the first time in 79 years, it could be justifiably made...
...Great Britain, China proposed the utter defeat of Japan, the utter destruction of its Empire, and war waged to these ends with no thought of mercy to or help from the Japanese people...
...nominate Joe Stalin-the powerful balance wheel of the United Nations, who steadfastly has kept his eye on the ball, namely-the utter defeat of Fascism...