Word: tautly
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There's enough tense action in this British film to keep anyone's fists clenched and at the same time there's no Errol Flynn or take heroism. Add excellent, tight acting and real dialogue, and the result is a perfect war picture. It's the taut story of one English bomber crew, forced down over Holland, and its eventual escape with the aid of Dutch civilians. With little of the shooting and grunting of Errol's "Dangerous Journey", it is stronger on the human side, and that makes it a distinguished movie...
...these the Army is proud. But it is proudest of its OCS graduates. It was on its enlisted soldiers, volunteers and draftees that the growing Army had to lean for its supply of younger officers. The success of the taut training they absorbed can be proved to old soldiers by their progress. One is already a lieutenant colonel, seven are majors, 397 are captains...
...depression? The men who asked this question were not the smart Wall Street traders who try to hedge the future by switching into peacetime equities. They were the industrialists, great & small, who at year's end were employing and were responsible for more men and women on their taut production lines than at any time before in history...
Perhaps the toughest trainer in the U.S. Army is a wiry little man who carries a full pack and a rifle while marching his troops across stony Oregon desert and who expects his middle-aged staff officers to be as taut-bellied as the hardiest young private. Major General Charles Hunter Gerhardt breaks in new men "gently" by sleeping them in pup tents in the rain, making them swim icy Oregon rivers...
...first year was ending, and it had been a Navy year. The tall, taut man who is both Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet (COMINCH) and Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) let his mind go back to the morning of Pearl Harbor, and observed that the Japanese probably had not expected their attack to be so successful. Said Admiral Ernest Joseph King: "If they had it to do over, I think you would probably find them moving in with a tremendous invasion force such as they brought against us at Midway...