Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Polish papers had not very much to say, except to welcome Poland's new military boss obsequiously. The Red propaganda mill promptly ground out some fetching facts to fit Poland's new made-in-Russia national hero. "We receive the news of his appointment with great emotion, that a child of the people should have returned to the People's Army," cried Radio Warsaw. "He has returned to his native city where he was brought up, to the Poniatowski Bridge which he helped build in 1913, to the Polish working class with whom he undertook his first...
True, high altitude bombers sent against warships "have their limitations. They can seldom see a target on the ground clearly, except by radar." And with "ordinary bombs which fly many miles horizontally as they drop they cannot hit the side of a barn-they cannot even hit a small city with any assurance . . . [But] the guided bomb alters this whole situation ... A great ship alone on the sea is a clear target to radar and a clear target for a guided bomb." Therefore, unless some effective seagoing defense against airborne attack comes along, "the days of the large fighting ships...
...over a foe of equal or comparable strength, was a delusion, and not worth the extreme cost and effort it entailed . . . [In the future] no fleets of bombers will proceed unmolested against any enemy that can bring properly equipped jet pursuit ships against them in numbers, aided by effective ground radar, and equipped with rockets or guided air-to-air missiles armed with proximity fuzes . . . The days of mass bombing may be approaching their...
...energy and pace are likely to leave audiences with dust in their eyes. As a chesty, first-year driver, Mickey Rooney burns up the racing circuit from Culver City to Indianapolis. Gripping the steering wheel with a fearful, downward thrust as though trying to keep the car on the ground, he never drives a dull race. He always wins, crashes, hurtles the wall, or narrowly misses burning to death. The movie falls short of the 1932 speedway saga called The Crowd Roars. But obstreperous acting, grease-textured photography, and endless clips from newsreel racing shots give it a sort...
...small-town Mississippi lawyer with gritty common sense and a shrewd insight into poor-white psychology that enables him to unravel his county's crimes. Up to a point he is both likeable and credible-a Yoknapatawpha County Sherlock Holmes-but Faulkner runs him to the ground by overloading him with unnecessary and undemonstrated learning ("a Harvard graduate . . . who could discuss Einstein with college professors") and with too much folksy moralizing...