Word: whimperers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month the girls were touched when an article praised them for sharing the G.I.s' mud and discomfort without a whimper. In Belgium Lieut. Slanger and her tent mates talked it over. That night, by flashlight, she wrote an answer: "We have learned a great deal about our American soldier and the stuff he is made of. The wounded do not cry. Their buddies come first. The patience and determination they show, the courage and fortitude they have is sometimes awesome to behold...
Normal Happiness. Few devout men managed to combine orthodoxy with gusto so successfully as Chesterton. When T. S. Eliot wrote: "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper," Chesterton burst out: "I'm damned if I ever felt like that." He resented the suggestion that modern life had been made as dull as ditchwater: "And, by the way, is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun." But to apostles of progress he remarked: "We sometimes tend to overlook the quiet and even bashful presence...
...soldiers in our spare bedroom . . . then just say the word. ... If my services are needed in the shipyards, on the assembly line, then I say, swell. Give us a program, and we'll live up to it. We'll go through with it without a whimper. But until that time comes, under unified direction, I wish they'd quit yelling at us. We're all worn out, and we haven't done a thing...
...This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but a whimper...
...especially capital cities, are the index of a defender's ferocity. Madrid showed for 30 months that the Loyalists meant business. Warsaw was Poland's small core of guts. Oslo was the keyhole of Norway, and in it the key turned pretty easily. Paris fell without a whimper, and so, soon afterward, did France. The Germans threatened last week, 32 weeks after Yugoslavia was supposedly licked, to flatten Belgrade. Of all the capitals, Moscow looms as the most formidable...