Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tiber's west bank, behind the gates of the Vatican, Pope Pius XII, silent and aloof, is a virtual prisoner of the Nazis. The Wehrmacht polices the Vatican's entrances and exits, even struts across the colonnaded piazza of St. Peter. The tall, picturesque Swiss Guards, organized by Pope Julius II in 1505, have put aside their ancient halberds for modern rifles...
...What guided the Germans to put Norway under virtual martial law? To make fresh demands for collaboration from Denmark's stubborn government? A mounting wave of sabotage? Or fear of an Allied sweep across the North...
Admiral Hewitt had worried about plenty of things, but not about the weather. He had worried about the difficulty of accurate landfalls on a strange coast at night; about the virtual impossibility of anything but tactical surprise; about the deviation of compasses when the soldiers with their metal rifles got aboard the assault boats. But by 7 o'clock on the eve of the invasion, the storm was so bad that the Admiral was having to consider ordering the landing craft to stay offshore...
...Franklin Roosevelt raised his glass in a toast to a liberated France, adding: "It is a very great symbol that General Giraud is here tonight. . . ." Yet it seemed to Frenchmen-both Giraudists and Gaullists alike-that the tanned five-star general, who has no stomach for politics, was a virtual prisoner in the U.S., his words censored, his movements circumscribed, his visits outside Washington mysterious...
...from its contracts by the close of the war, will come out with "a monopoly which will dominate electric-power resources and the production of aluminum on the American continent and to a large extent throughout the world." The method of finance, he contends, makes the project a "virtual gift" to the aluminum interests, and "the greatest financial grab ever pulled off in . . . Canada." Shipshaw, insists he, must be seized by the Province of Quebec...