Word: bites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unity. For dreary months last winter, in a dreary wasteland camp, 5,000 men of the Greek First Brigade trained for battle service. Many were tough veterans, evzones who had doffed their exotic petti coats and pomponed slippers to fight frost bite and Italians in Albania's wild mountains. They had escaped from the homeland when the Germans turned the tide. Now they chafed to get back into the fight against the Fascists...
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...given the U.S. new airfields 500 miles closer to the enemy's inner positions. From the three big airdromes at Hollandia (on which U.S. engineers worked this week), U.S. long-range bombers can now reach the southern tip of the Philippines (although with minimum loads), can also bite heavily into the Jap chain from the onetime Dutch naval base at Amboina, up through the Pacific arc to Guam...
Imagining the world's reaction to a kind of modern-Jesus is, if an old idea, always a provocative one. Sheppey has cleverness and a certain intellectual bite. But Sheppey, the work of a man too frosty to be either greatly amused or indignant, never really foams into comedy or explodes into drama. And Sheppey, like most barbers, talks too much; indeed, everybody talks too much, but nobody too well...
...play's great merit is its genuine bite; its worst weakness, that it bites off more than it can chew. It is more like two plays-and two very unequal ones. When it seizes its theme and blows across the blackened grass of the age, The Searching Wind is bracing and sharp-a drama of adult talk and challenging ideas. But the theme both hampers the plot and holds aloof from it. The love story lacks fullness. The women lack freedom. They live only in hurried, gasping moments of crisis-and in an atmosphere too often dominated by proclamations...