Word: utters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night, in the utter blackout, people stay in their homes, listening to the endlessly patrolling planes of an Army & Navy grimly determined never again to be caught off guard. By day they scan the blue distance, watch each wisp of smoke that trails along the horizon, hoping it brings news from the U.S.-not from Japan...
...digging trenches, running all over the landscape, and indulging in other forms of senseless exhibitionism concocted by the sadistically inventive minds of the College authorities. Vag shuddered, as visions of physical exertion passed across his mind; it was a long, spine-shaking shudder, such as he was accustomed to utter when he saw his tutor walking toward him on Mass. Avenue...
...Churchill failed to utter even a syllable on the one subject uppermost in British minds: the escape of the German ships through the Channel. To his critics he turned what those critics call the stubborn side of his character-the stubborn side which carried Britain through her darkest previous hours: "One fault, one crime and one crime only can rob the United Nations and the British people . . . of the victory upon which their lives and honor depends: a weakening in our purpose, and therefore in our unity. That is the mortal crime...
...enjoyment of what he is doing stimulates them. But two of Stevens' attributes are beyond the understanding of actors or anyone else. One is his capacity for putting anyone on the defensive at once by tightening his lips, removing all expression from his face and refusing to utter a word. Known to his friends as "the chill," it has been triumphantly successful at making studio executives behave...
...lose his end of the war, Karl Doenitz will never lose the dubious historical honor of being the man who could-and did-lay the groundwork for the greatest submarine fleet in history, in utter defiance of the Versailles Treaty and under the very noses of Allied investigating missions...