Word: gathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...employ two systems. First, wait till the sun comes out, then pull forth the bayonet and shake it over the head so the Italians can see the gleams. Then put the bayonet on the rifle. Second, gather shoulders-to-shoulders, take a deep breath and together shout: 'Aera! Aera!' " Aera means "wind...
...campers gather after breakfast for a ten-minute period of silent "contemplation'' (an idea borrowed from the Quaker camps), then rattle off in three jalopies to their project. Boss Mesavage hands out assignments, shows them how to use tools, sees that no one overstrains himself. Work is strictly limited to four hours a day; Mesavage overruled a demand that they be allowed to work...
Morale is constantly nursed; fighting spirit is nurtured. For an hour every day officers gather their men to explain the political acts of the Nazi leadership, to give every soldier a sense of participation in history. Units meet for the singing of folk songs, for political, scientific and cultural lectures...
...been called a power miser. He likes to gather all the power into his grasp, but then refuses to use it." He will "go to any length to avoid strikes. ... He has always preferred consultation to coercion." He has "unending patience in negotiations." Yet "he was one of the first among the leaders to recognize the threat of Fascism." Ernest Bevin does not like radical intellectuals. Neither, Author Strauss makes it clear, do radical intellectuals like Bevin. The fundamental difference between their doctrinaire attitude and that of "this fearsome-looking man, with the brusque voice and genius for brutal direct...
...than a commissary for herself and Austria. The Ukrainians undertook to supply 1,000,000 tons of grain, 46,000 tons of meat, 400,000,000 eggs, many horses, much coal, lard, manganese, fodder, sugar. The German Commander in the East, Field Marshal Hermann von Eichhorn, settled down to gather in the loot...