Word: warriorism
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...brave, young face of Pilot Officer Freeguard, 19, looked down on flaming Cologne the night 1,000 R.A.F. bombers plastered that German city with destruction. The same warrior face, on a British Ministry of Information poster, now is going to Russia above this message: "We lost 44 planes on that raid, but we are prepared to give our lives to destroy Fascism, as you are giving yours. The Fascists will not be able to stand the hell we shall give them together...
...varied, but the first of these is the acting of Paul Robeson. Following a finer tradition of Shakesperean interpretation than the American stage has seen for several years, Mr. Robeson dominates the play not because of his role, but through the fine quality of his characterization. Othello's warrior of great strength and fearlessness is also a man of a simple nature that is receptive soil for the seeds of jealousy planted by Iago. Watching Robeson's performance, one can see this jealousy blight the tenderness of his love at the start as in his description of his love...
...Warrior. In Dedham, Mass., John R. Marsolini, soon to be inducted, asked court permission to shorten his surname to Mars...
Cradle of Hate. Itagaki was born at precisely the right time. In 1885, when his peasant mother bore him in Iwate Prefecture, the Samurai grip on the Japanese army had been broken for twelve years. Until 1873, only the sons of Japan's warrior caste could be officers; and, until a very few years before that, ingrown Japan was uninterested in the schemes of conquest which alone could develop military imperialists. As it was, Seishiro Itagaki was free to join and rise in the new army. Japan in his boyhood was storing up the ambitions, greeds and hatreds which...
...Chinese army. Now, with Russia embattled and the Burma Road closed, General Ma was again being asked to do the impossible. Nearly cornered, China must get war supplies from India. Off to put down a roadbed for trucks where Marco Polo's caravans once traveled went onetime warrior, wartime roadbuilder General...