Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concluded G.B.S.: "The Berlin child did not grow up at all or grew up a nervous wreck or a disciplinarian terrorist. The Connemara child grew up humane and healthy but at best a noble savage. The problem is how to produce adults who are both humane and cultivated. Clearly they must have not only the Berlin discipline but the Connemara massage...
...outcome of all this, said the Observer, would be to rip up the Reich, throw Germany back into the chaos of little states which Bismarck made a nation, and thus wreck the victors' plans for a united but weakened Germany. In the confusion, the underground Nazis would do their damndest to make life impossible for the occupying troops, keep "a ruthless grip on a cowed population." Concluded the Observer...
...with all this to recommend it, "Guest in the House" does not quite come off either as entertainment or a penetrating psychological study. Miss Eunson and Miss Wilde have hit on a novel idea in having a neurotic girl consciously set out to wreck the happily married life of the Proctors, living in a small house near Trumbull, Connecticut. This kind of thing has undoubtedly happened in many households, in one form or another, and the co-authors never succeed in making the situation quite believable...
...crash-landed flying back from Japan bombing. I spent most of the time with crew members working out a scheme to avoid being captured by Japs, while Jap fighters and bombers throughout the morning mercilessly strafed and bombed the ship into a total wreck. I fortunately escaped any injury. I hope my story on bombing will reach you in time for publication. (It did. See WORLD BATTLEFRONTS.) For the second time I am glad to be alive and walk away from a plane crash, but again I lost all my equipment...
...Belgians: "The enemy . . . hastens to put the finishing touch on his work of disorganization and destruction of the state. . . . On the deliverance of Belgium . . . the King will recover . . . the exercise of his prerogatives." Winston Churchill affirmed Allied support of the exiled Government. If the Germans had hoped to wreck Allied plans for Belgium by spiriting away the King, they had failed...