Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many Pacific war observers-especially Marines-believe that by such incomprehensible devotion to self-destruction Japanese military fanatics are building up to a super-Wagnerian climax which might result, if carried to its mad extreme, in the virtual annihilation-self-inflicted or imposed-of one of the nations of mankind. Recent suicides (military and civilian) indicate that the Jap yen for suicide is due less to fear of torture and imprisonment by U.S. captors than to a belief that somehow each death provides "a shield for the Emperor" and "contributes to the inevitable victory...
...escape. Many of the scratch fleet of evacuation ships were sunk by Red Fleet aircraft before they got to sea. The seizure of Tallinn (directly opposite Helsinki) was a great naval victory, for it pave the Red Fleet control of the Gulf of Finland and, after three years' virtual blockade, a chance to operate in the Baltic. The Red Fleet seized the opportunity at once, and landed marines who captured Paldiski, west of Tallinn...
...bears are probably the best thing in the show, but they get a lot of friendly competition from Miss Allbritton's four barbaric little brothers and from several expert comics, old & new. Irene Ryan, a virtual newcomer, does a cute, keen-edged little job as a room-seeking spinster who lands in the wrong house. Buster Keaton, one of the greatest of the silent clowns, gives the world-worn bus driver an aplomb, a strangeness, a depth of sadness, which all but turn the picture from its casual, slap-happy course into something far more impressive...
G.O.P. Chairman Herbert Brownell saw in Maine's voting a "virtual guarantee" of nationwide victory. Maine's Republican Senator Owen Brewster found a moral: "Mr. Hillman is an albatross hung about the Democratic neck." The P.A.C.'s Sidney Hillman explained simply: "Maine is a Republican state...
Meantime, he declares, the Socialist Party itself was corrupted by the insidious infiltration of Communists. By 1936, the Reds' "militant" United Front had destroyed his Party's democratic spirit, forced it to virtual suicide. Resigning his membership, Waldman helped form the American Labor Party. By 1940, it too had absorbed the Communist poison. Waldman quit again...