Word: brink
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Backed by a grieving hedge of civilians, two Russian Orthodox priests pace the brink of a huge common grave, sprinkling holy water...
...staleness with pace, surface wit, some crisp acting. As a henpecked satyr, Roland Young is still the alltime master of twiddle, the fatuous innuendo, the Britannic bleat. Fred MacMurray is an experienced cutup too. But some cinemaddicts may feel that Paulette Goddard is on the brink of overstatement when she exclaims: "Every time I see him I get weak in the knees...
...Though Germany has fought on only one front, she has been "driven to the brink of disaster." But "never in history has the enemy himself jumped over the precipice. To win a war it is necessary to bring the opponent to the brink . . . and shove him over. . . . For this it is necessary to continue perfecting the military skill of the men and commanders ... to study enemy tactics constantly and to counter his tactics with more perfect tactics...
...year-old religious and cultural monument that stirred the world. It was the thought that the Abbey of Monte Cassino, a unique beacon of the spirit lit at the very onset of the Dark Ages, was being demolished by the military necessities of a civilization closer to the brink than any other has been since that earlier human crisis...
There is scarcely any food now and disease hovers on the brink of their other disasters. Some of Romanoglio's people have gone; they went to the safer south, trudging along the roads, carrying their mattresses on their heads, pushing baby carriages, cringing into the roadsides as great motor convoys passed. They were part of the 25,000 women and children who were directed by AMG to evacuate from towns in the path of war. Those of Romanoglio's people who remained are putting bricks into the shell holes of their homes, burying their dead, squealing and screaming...