Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Children. Trieste harbor is lovely and undamaged. The Kiwis (New Zealanders) park their tanks and trucks on the waterside, and enjoy the surf with Italian girls. In the town itself the streets are patrolled night & day by armed squads of Yugoslavs carrying machine guns and tripods, knives, pistols and clusters of grenades. Most of them are very young; some are only ten or twelve years old. Their tattered uniforms include British battle dress, captured German and Italian hand-me-downs. When not patrolling, most of them ramble around Trieste's downtown districts with their dirty-haired Yugoslav girls...
...Germans like to work and obey; the Italians like to have a good time and enjoy life. That's why nazism worked as a national policy in Germany while fascism failed in Italy...
...collaborator's temperament, as well as talent. If he quite lacks his grandfather's color ("I am rather uninteresting") he also lacks the old man's choler. His private life also lacks the gaudy touch. "I guess I have never been young enough," he confesses, "to enjoy night clubs. I don't understand what goes on after 1 a.m.-but I doubt if anything very profound is said." A family man (he has been married twice), he does not smoke, seldom drinks, spends as much time as possible on his Doylestown, Pa. farm, where he grows...
Next, in a cave on the side of a hill overlooking the sea, Tweed felt "for the first time in over three months . . . that I had successfully eluded the Japs long enough to enjoy a breathing spell. . . . My cave was well concealed, and I was already turning over in my mind the ways in which I would make it more comfortable." With ingenuity and the help of an enterprising Chamorro he soon succeeded...
George Patton, individual, can be engagingly attractive-urbane, almost courtly in manner, quiet in speech. Reputedly one of the Regular Army's wealthiest officers, he has a high social polish. He and his wife, Beatrice Ayer Patton, both have ample means, and in peacetime enjoy social life at their California ranch and handsome farm at Hamilton, Mass. In moments of ease Patton mixes a heady conversational cocktail of military erudition that might range from the 6th Century B.C. precepts of Sun Tzu to the tactics by which George Patton took the citadel at Metz...