Word: bad
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...system were not finished military pilots, actually had to have ten more weeks of training with tactical squadrons. Top-notch graduates were kept on at the schools as instructors. Courses were so compressed that instructors had little leeway to make up flying time lost because of bad weather, to nurse along slower students. Essential ground-school instruction had to be abbreviated. Veteran fliers blanched when they saw the hourly, crowded "rat race" at Randolph -the close-packed stream of trainers, gliding in to land and take on fresh cadets and instructors...
Fascist propagandists have insisted that their Greek debacle was caused by the perfidy of Albania and Albion, by "bad luck" (early rains) and by Greek treach ery in being all mobilized and ready in numbers far greater than Italy could get to the front.* The last part of this lame story is obviously untrue, but it may be that behind the beard of many an "Al banian" who incited his comrades' sur render or rebellion grinned the sly face of a British Intelligence operative. But the fact remains that Italy threw into the fight, at the outset, ten full...
Third to the chopping block was Admiral Domenico Cavagnari, Chief of Staff and Under Secretary of the Navy. If Albania was bad, what has happened to the Italian Fleet is horrible - whittled down in each & every encounter it has had with the British. To replace Cavagnari, Mussolini chose Admiral Arturo Riccardi, with Admiral Angelo Jacchino taking the new post of Commander of the Fleet...
...more modern illusion lies bloody in the dust. Oh, joy, hear the cannibals gibber! To paraphrase: Jean Gabin has made, not a mediocre picture, not a bad one, but one that is simply stinking, divinely so, my dear...
...rulers under such circumstances would not strengthen our powers of defense. If no better reason for entering a foreign war can be found, a decision to enter now will have the same unhappy effects upon American morale as we have seen produced abroad by similar acts of bad faith on the part of trusted public men. The British campaign to bring America into the war has opened very inauspiciously...