Word: vileness
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...Commando show, at Bardia, Sir Walter fell in a ditch more than 62 inches deep. He verbally flayed a stalwart young officer who, mistaking him for Major Evelyn Waugh (Vile Bodies), tried to extricate him in the darkness. In Rommel's sudden thrust at Bir Hacheim in 1942, Sir Walter was captured. For 16 months he was a prisoner. Then Italy's collapse released him and gave him a chance to win his second D.S.O...
...Allies can force a genuine breakthrough into the open country between Caen and Paris. The battleground was so restricted that German reconnaissance had ample warning of the push-but the battleground will always be restricted while the Allies remain bottled up on the Normandy peninsula. The weather was vile; dust-dry one day, bucketing rain the next two or three-but even the most loyal correspondents were weary of apologizing for the fighting weather...
Biased Words? These were extreme words, but there was enough truth in them to hurt. Quebec City's L'Action Catholique, the organ of powerful Cardinal J. M. Rodrigue Villeneuve, called Bouchard a "vile man" and a traitor to his people. The Cardinal himself said: "I must publicly disapprove. . . ." The Liberal Party's Premier Adélard Godbout, from whose Cabinet Bouchard had gone to the Senate, was sorely embarrassed. In Ottawa, a French Canadian member of Mackenzie King's Liberal Government tried to minimize the whole affair. Said able, cool Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Minister...
Broadway has been having a busy June but a bad one. The "silly season" has sprouted comedies that lack even a silly seasoning of wit, farces more like new forms of torture, a beer-&-pretzel extravaganza at which the vile acoustics became a virtue. Most of these walking corpses already lie in their little graves. Least bad and most likely to survive: Take a Bow, a variety show that, whenever it comes up with a good turn, forgets that one good turn deserves another...
After a lull during vile weather, the air war against Germany picked up in full force as 1,500 U.S. planes attacked Berlin and Brunswick, forcing the Luftwaffe fighter command into a savage battle which cost 125 Nazi fighters against 26 U.S. bombers and 19 fighters...