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Steely determination to win and a willingness to die have won more than one battle. But when these qualities develop into indifference to losses-as they did on the Western Front in World War I and as they did in Napoleon's later campaigns-they can easily lose wars. Before Moscow Bock is expending men and materiel whose strength Germany will never be able to call on again. It is just possible that when the military history of World War II is written and a list is made of the generals who have done most to whittle down Germany...
...previous blows of which had been struck directly opposite Moscow, he skirted south of the hard core of resistance at Tula to drive straight east as far as Skopin; then cut south of another hard core at Kalinin to drive east to Dmitrov. His intention seemed to be to develop a huge encirclement of the capital...
...Greene "socializes" his patients with parties, games and plays. They are given simple, mechanical tasks to develop muscular coordination, are also taught to speak into a microphone, for it serves as a focus of attention. As soon as a patient enters the hospital, he is given a complete physical examination and recordings are made of his speech so he can gauge his progress. A new clinic to study the brain wave patterns of stutterers will soon be opened in the hospital...
...road that helped develop the great Alabama steel areas (and vice versa); it was the road whose passengers used to be met by grinning waiters with free Sazerac cocktails; it was the road which John W. (Bet-you-a-Million) Gates kidnapped from J. P. Morgan's corral in a spectacular Stock Exchange raid in 1902. Gates made $10,000,000 by selling the stock to J. P. Morgan, who then resold it to Atlantic Coast Line. A.C.L. still owns 51% of L. & N. common...
Maintaining that there is definitely no stigma attached to participation in the program, Fradd pointed out that many star athletes join. More than half the preliminary work, consisting of hundreds of exercises, takes place on the mats and is designed to develop back and abdominal muscles...