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...make a great deal of difference. They always believed that when the chips were down the leaders would quit playing politics and get in there and pitch. But the chips are down now and the shenanigans continue, from high places on down. So the people say: "The hell with it. I'm going to get mine while the getting is good...
...deputy director of priorities in September 1941. On his first day he told staff members: "If there's any guy who doesn't think we can deliver this program in 1942, he had better get his time check, turn in his tools and get the hell out of here, quick...
...corn syrup, but it doesn't matter at all. It doesn't matter because, for the first time, we see fleets of Spitfires fighting German Messerschmidts; we see two thousand horse power bombers with three ton bombs tucked away in their bellies; we see a frightening, new version of "Hell's Angels." All this runs throughout the picture. Then, to top it off,--the lemon peel on the cocktail of filmdom--there is a Commando raid on a German airfield. Instead of cowboys, you have grim-faced soldiers dressed in black from head to foot; instead of wild western ponics...
...When the present pressure is relieved, perhaps someone will compile a glossary of military cliches for the benefit of people living in a homelier world. Certainly such a glossary would contain the word 'fluid,' probably translated for the layman in this way: 'Our boys are catching hell and the outcome is uncertain...
...weight of armor only makes armor necessary. As one of the General's men says: "The idea is if Joe Louis is sitting in the corner with his back turned, you hit him behind the ear with brass knuckles. You hit him with plenty. Then you get the hell out before all Harlem breaks loose...