Word: midwar
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...back, Eichelberger is good-naturedly contemptuous of Army Intelligence (he was told to expect 6,000 Japanese on Leyte-his Eighth Army killed more than 27,000 there), and he is impatient with the kind of War Department nonsense that brought ranking generals to Brisbane to be photographed in midwar. That one consumed five precious Eichelberger days...
...Cordell Hull (after Pearson reported, in midwar, that the Secretary of State wanted Russia "bled white"): "[a teller of] monstrous and diabolical falsehoods...
Dear Ruth (Paramount), a midwar hit on Broadway, was a neat, machine-turned farce which depended almost as heavily on its particular period as day before yesterday's racing form. But, even tardily, as it comes to the screen, it is still reasonably entertaining...
Bedside Manners. "I pushed into the room," wrote pushy Clark Lee, an A.P. star who turned Hearstling (with I.N.S.) in midwar. "Tojo lay back in a small armchair, his eyes closed. . . . Blood oozed slowly from a wound just above his heart. . . . The American reporters pushed past Tojo, brushing his knees, talking loudly and excitedly. Photographers shoved their cameras in the wounded man's face...
...midwar furlough in Dieppe, they hear the French townsfolk greet...