difficult situation; adverse circumstances; predicament; trouble; dilemma; distress
putting on a brave face; put-on cheeriness; pretending one is fine; show of courage; bravado; Dutch courage
to charge; to lunge; to flare up (at someone); to turn on (someone); to collide with; to bump into
to be able to manage somehow or another
unreliable; undependable; helpless; forlorn; worried; uneasy
record of war; war chronicle; commentaries of war; military history
finish; completion; the end