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...fighting that really won the war. At the climax, Tanker Cochran almost singlehanded drives a wedge through the Siegfried Line, which appears to be an area no deeper than the width of Sunset Boulevard. Amid such juvenile heroics, only the tanks look real, and they expend ammunition with an abandon which should horrify U.S. taxpayers and delight the shoot-'em-up enthusiasts for whom this low-caliber movie was tooled...
...defeatism as two powerful and dominant negative sentiments in modern French thought. The neutralist force, which includes members of all political coloring, dreads a third World War. However, in the event of war, segments of the neutrals would likely align themselves with America, he continued, while defeatists probably would abandon all hope...
...combination of the Stork Club and a private hotel room. Some clubs, each of about 100 members, can put up as many as 40 girls a night, and the curfew isn't until 2 a.m. The famous House party week-end leads all the others in gaiety and abandon, but the football week-ends are not far behind. In the spring and early fall Lake Carnegie and the football field offer fine rendezvous...
...petition said that enactment of any of the anti-subversive bills would "curtail academic freedom," It continued: "Its provisions regulating holding of meetings and assembled would force Universities such as ours to abandon the time-honored practice of having speakers of all political persuasions...
...order, Washington observers found it hard to follow Mobilizer Wilson's reasoning. A later announcement seemed to make it clear that the order was aimed at men rather than metals. This week in Washington, Wilson will meet the nation's TV manufacturers and urge them to abandon temporarily all color experimentation in order to free their best electronic engineers for "important military projects...