Word: wintrye
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In the wintry streets of Britain's towns & villages, 2,000,000 men of the Home Guard paraded for the last time. Londoners lined three miles of streets to cheer the final march past. The "little man's" army, having waited four and a half years for an...
Last week the walls of Manhattan's Lilienfeld Galleries suggested a gusty day. On view were works by Maurice de Vlaminck, the "poet of bad weather." There are 18 of them-atmospherically ominous paintings, small French towns under wintry or stormy skies, harbors, fields and flowers.
It had crossed the borders of two prewar states (Poland, Estonia). In one week it had scored four spectacular victories. For the Russian man-in-the-street, pobeda-victory-was in the wintry air.
Men of good will and men with schemes to push pondered last week the riddle of the bear that walks like a man. From the wintry fastness of the Russian plain, the bear had reached out to gash a friend. Moscow's Pravda, highest official mouthpiece of the Communist...
But Stalingrad, like most films of real war, generates an even greater power from the dead-ordinary, rather messy shots which incontestably record the immense clumsiness, the spurts of craziness, the human ordinariness of war. The soldiers who crowd a boat to cross the wintry Volga, when the action turns...