Jonny Kim

For me... after having some intense wartime experiences where I lost a lot of good friends that I've loved, I made a promise to those guys who died - that I'd do everything in my power for the rest of my life to make this world a better place. Because those men were great human beings and they left a void.

American Astronaut

J. M. G. Le Clezio

To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.

French Writer

Shinzo Abe

I have to express sympathy from the bottom of my heart to those people who were taken as wartime comfort women. As a human being, I would like to express my sympathies, and also as prime minister of Japan I need to apologize to them.

Japanese Statesman

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Nor do we begin to have a clear appreciation of what the increase in consumption of alcoholic beverages in wartime means in increased risk, and in loss of efficiency to the fighting and working forces of the country.

Canadian Politician

J. G. Ballard

One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.

British Author

Will Durant

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

American Historian

Eliza Doolittle

I'm interested in wartime stories, as I think it's important to remember what the soldiers went through.

English Musician

Winston Churchill

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

British Statesman

A. S. Byatt

When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.

English Novelist

Benjamin Franklin

Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

American Politician

Wartime refers specifically to the duration of conflict, separate from peacetime.

Temporal Context

Wartime can evoke powerful emotions, as it often reminds people of sacrifices and challenges.

Cultural Significance

Wartime is frequently used in history classes or documentaries to describe periods of war.

Historical Usage

 in science, in politics and society. Take what may be the most important invention of modern programmable computers. Now, the standard story is that computers descend from military technology, since many of the early computers were designed specifically to crack wartime codes or calculate rocket trajectories.

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 But speak to your girls of this wartime, a year preceded by a score of the same, so as in two decades before, we wiped our eyes, laced caskets with flags, evacuated the crime scene of the club, caterwauled in the street, laid our bodies on the concrete against the outlines of our fallen,

Chinaka Hodge: What will...

 proper way and I think that there is a significant amount of support at minimum for the creation of a common to study reparations the prelude to the japanese-american reparations was a commission called the Commission on wartime relocation and internment of

A blueprint for...

 vaccine platforms that are not only worthwhile for pandemics will be used to make vaccines for malaria tb and hiv and so just like in wartime uh you know we've moved quickly and tried new things you know even in terms of our lifestyle can you use

Bill Gates: COVID-19 has...

 seeing websites that it doesn't like after all you have nothing to hide right but that isn't freedom and now it might be becoming a little more clear why cryptography is cooking in freedom a famous wartime example of cryptography

The unexpected tool to...

 wartime memorabilia including his photo albums his grown grandchildren who you see in that photo were stunned grandpa had never before pulled out this box he had never shown it to anybody his entire life my visit prompted him to

Adrian Myers: Where...

 Another wartime technology, the chemical explosive ammonium nitrate, also found new life on the farm. With this new synthetic fertilizer, farmers could plant dense fields of corn year after year,

The history of the world...

 Statues were built, temples were dedicated, and a whole month was renamed, still called July today. More importantly, the title of dictator, meant to grant temporary emergency powers in wartime,

The great conspiracy...

 awarded medals of valor during wartime one key to a pigeon messengers success speed to send a message 50 miles a world-class runner needs almost five

Pigeon Genius PIPE National...

 underworld association their headquarters is a wartime air-raid shelter hidden under a subway station

Wartime

The period when a country is involved in a war.

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