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...this miracle of a great offensive at mud-time. He produced it by turning to foot, man, and tank-power, by keeping his men on grueling marches few other armies could survive. His officers scoff: "The Fritzies are lost without their trucks; they want to ride-whether forward or backward...
...period in which she could become a dominant world power. [This is due] to the diffusion of technological civilization among peoples that are growing more rapidly. Those who view the prevention of a new German attempt at conquest as the major problem of the peace seem ... to be looking backward. . . . The power and interests of the Soviet Union are an adequate guarantee against that contingency...
With the brains of a backward...
...South Looks Outward. Before abandoning himself to despair about the chances of a great & good peace surviving Tom Connally's Senate, the patriot should recall one fact about the present Senate leadership. However backward-looking the South may be in other matters, it has depended for prosperity since colonial days on the sale of its cotton and tobacco in world markets and is traditionally outward-looking in the field of U.S. foreign relations...
Johnny Weissmuller emitted a high-pitched cry: "I've been wearing animal-skin scanties too long. My chest is calloused from beating it, and I've climbed more trees than a lumberjack. My lines have read like a backward two-year-old talking to his nurse." His program of dress reform, in order of his new movie costumes: 1) a Marine combat-correspondent's uniform, 2) a cowboy outfit, 3) a business suit, 4) perhaps, eventually, evening dress...