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...never before been proclaimed on earth-not even after Stalingrad. The desperate measures he announced might stave off defeat for months. But to many, his threats must have seemed less like total war than total mobilization of the last broken cracker on the bottom of the barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Total War | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...Hall, filling the male lead with all the subtle masculinity so typical of the barrel-chested type, stumbled in and out of the usual death traps on the afore-mentioned S.S.I...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 7/21/1944 | See Source »

...Barrel's Bottom. The Red forces encountered surprisingly sparse deployments of German tanks and other armor. Probably half of the Reich's armor was pinned down in Italy and France; the remainder was not enough for Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Mincemeat at Minsk | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...General and the Colonel were peering over the barrel of a machine gun which was firing across a large quarry. Following its line of fire they could see the mouth of a tunnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The General's Compliments | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...Good Side. On Jake Fitch's credit side, naval aviators found this to say: although he was 46 when he went to Pensacola and won his wings, he caught on fast, for an aviation ancient. Since then barrel-chested, rough-&-ready Jake Fitch has served only in aviation jobs: he commanded the seaplane tenders Wright, Langley, served in the carrier Saratoga; commanded the carrier Lexington, and was aboard her as a Rear Admiral when she was torpedoed in the Coral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Still Stooging | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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