Word: keep
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Finns have something they call sisu. It is a compound of bravado and bravery, of ferocity and tenacity, of the ability to keep fighting after most people would have quit, and to fight with the will to win. The Finns translate sisu as "the Finnish spirit," but it is a much more gutful word than that...
...explosion that they become inaccurate. Such guns must be cooled between shots or their barrels, superheated, will sag at the muzzle. Between shots, too, their gunners must calculate (from a pressure gauge communicating with the bore) how much to add to the charge to allow for progressive scoring and keep up the range...
...named it for Lotta Svärd. Finland's tough and brawny Lottas, 100,000 strong, not only nurse and cook. In wartime they take the places of the mobilized Civic Guardists in fire and police departments. They staff the hun dreds of air and naval observation posts, keep sharp watch for raids...
...into Paris at the heels of men home on this war's first furlough. Metropolitan troops from Tunis were said to have been in a state of near mutiny ever since their arrival in France, heaving bread and canned corned beef at their officers, obliging the French to keep them surrounded by a constant guard. The 31st French infantry, after marching 120 kilometres (72 mi.) in three days, refused to march the fourth day, threw their arms into ditches, sat down in the road. They were not punished...
...success formula of this most widely heard man in the English-speaking world is essentially simple. "We are in the worst period of history the world has known," he says, "and the job is to keep explaining why, why, why without being a Jeremiah." So Swing tells what's what simply, calmly, right, with no flash-flashes, no calamitous crescendos, no special hallmark of his own except a level, almost hushed "Good night...