Word: groupings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Despite uncountable acts of individual and group heroism, the morale of the surviving U.S. troops had been severely shaken by the knowledge that all their shiny weapons and equipment, their sensational blitz tactics, their mountain of supplies, their tanks, trucks, artillery and air power could not hold back a horde that moved on foot, without air support, without armor and with hardly any weapon larger than a mortar. The American fighting man had moved a long way from the revolutionary rabble of 1775; he had become, in a manner of speaking, the British Redcoat of 1950-confident of superiority...
...Wednesday. A short story that Colin could not place on Monday appeared Thursday in Les Nouvelles Littéraires. By Saturday his novel was being serialized in France-Dimanche, a sensational weekly. All week the presses roared, boosting the total printing of his book (a modest story about a group of adults who try to recapture the happy camaraderie of childhood on an estate in the Sologne region, and fail because they no longer possess the simple cruelty of children) from the original...
...there were plenty of smaller prizes. A group of writers who like to dine in the Brasserie Lipp on the Boulevard St. Germain met, drank three Martinis, and awarded the international prize of the French Book Club to Robert Penn Warren for the French translation of All the King's Men. The same group of men then got up, walked across the street to the Café des Deux Magots, and awarded the Prix des Deux Magots, sponsored by the owners of the café, to Jean Masares for his Comme le pélican du-désert...
Larry: Wouldn't it interest you that MacFarren has organized a secret Ku Klux group...
Dining hall personnel, which comprises two locals of the American Federation of Labor, is a large group benefiting from the new increase. Last spring, employees of the University bakery broke away from the A.F.L. to join the H.U.E.R.A...