Word: dunkirks
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...above all the year when men were trying to readjust themselves in books to two years of political shocks, from Munich to Dunkirk, which challenged every value by which men had thinkingly or unthinkingly lived...
...beach at Dunkirk it ceased to be possible to take democracy for granted. In 1941 men tried to stem this fact in a flood of dollar books about democracy, which revived the art of pamphleteering, but cost persistently patriotic publishers easily foreseeable losses...
...battle was as big as the world. And the U.S. was in it-not as far as it might be-but almost as far as it could go with out a Dunkirk...
...nightmare retreat of the British Army across France and the howling hell of Dunkirk, the U.S. Army found a pregnant sermon for its officers to ponder. For the past month the Army has heard that sermon delivered by a man who had come through the awful works and could tell how. Pink-cheeked, 45-year-old British Brigadier Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson, D.S.O., M.C., returned to Washington last week (and set off forthwith for the Carolina maneuvers) after a 30-day lecture tour in U.S. Army posts. Total of his officer audiences: close...
...best potpourris in recent film history, "A Yank in the R.A.F." offers exciting glimpses of the bombing of Berlin, the evacuation of Dunkirk, and the conquest of Grable all three feats performed by Tyrone Power without so much as messing his coiffure. The supporting cast, sparked by Reginald Gardiner as an R.A.F. volunteer from the upper crust who is just bored with it all, give sparkling comedy performances; and a horde of extras with wonderful technical direction pack conviction into the military scenes...