Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked at the Army's 1943 quotas and began to wonder. The Army planned to have 7,500,000 men by year's end, plus 650,000 officers. Navy and Marines planned to expand to 2,000,000. Did the nation really need a military force of 10,150,000 men-or would an Army of that size only delay victory...
...keep intact a great part of his Panzer division and Afrika Korps, for he could move back more swiftly than Montgomery could move forward across scorched countrysides, dragging behind him his ever-lengthening supply lines. That Montgomery was able to move as fast as he did was a wonder of modern...
Keep your wonder at great and noble things like sunlight and thunder, the rain and the stars, the wind and the sea, the growth of trees and the return of harvests, and the greatness of heroes...
...Sometimes Wonder...
...when they were given to him"), Herbert Asquith ("no war minister . . . able, but no man of action"), Foch ("simple, honorable, and absolutely fearless"), Bonar Law ("not a man of action"), Ramsay MacDonald ("too timid"), and "Blockhead (Stanley) Baldwin." On Britain's conduct of the current war: "I sometimes wonder what we are doing. Here we are in the fourth year of the war and we've hardly tackled our main enemy, Germany...