Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must therefore shoulder the blame for "the loss of the war"; France had mobilized 3,000,000 men, England only 200,000; the great strategic error of the campaign occurred when at England's insistence the French Army left its trenches to rush into the Lowlands to the fatal battle of the Meuse; General Weygand had asked the British to strike southward to help close the Artois gap, but after dallying for two days, the British suddenly abandoned Arras and raced northward towards the Channel ports; the British saved four-fifths of their troops at Dunkirk while the French...
...Three drops on the skin are fatal...
...Santiago, Chileans thronged to join a newly formed "sixth column," organized to "awaken our democracy from the fatal sleep of misplaced confidence...
...ambiguous character of the Duke, who was never clearly hero, cruel husband, fond lover or murderer. Perhaps it was just the old difficulty of transferring a novel to film, the necessity (recognized as unfortunate by the producers themselves) of telling the story backwards. None of these faults was fatal in itself, but all contributed to the film's serious defect. Though All This and Heaven Too had practically everything a big picture could have, it lacked one thing no picture big or little can do without-spontaneous life...
...major generals-a move likely to produce more energy and brainpower. But if he could stretch his men and artillery far enough, he still was short of other things. The bulk of the French mechanized forces (maximum: three divisions), and all the British and Belgian, were in the fatal pocket. Worse still, the Allied Air Forces, as daily losses added up, were whittled lower & lower. Besides attrition, further weakening of the R. A. F.-to which Premier Reynaud paid glowing tribute-by the withdrawal of planes for the defense of Great Britain (see p. 27) was all too possible...