Word: abler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With these reduced resources, Stalin tackled his problem, trying to pick abler leaders for his Army, trying to improve its resistance, trying to maintain the morale of his underfed people, trying to extract more aid from his Allies and to get them to open a second front...
Naval Sci conditioning will consist of such pastimes as jin jitsu, boxing, wrestling, cross country running, the obstacle course, calisthenics, and rope climbing-all designed to make abler ensigns...
...People don't give a damn what the average Senator or Congressman says. The reason they don't care is that they know what you hear in Congress is 99% tripe, ignorance and demagoguery and not to be relied on." Protector of The Press. One of the abler men in Congress last week poured out the typical feelings of the better type of Congressmen: "You just can't haul off and indict Congress in general. You say this Congress is an all-time low. Well, I can cite you as good men in this Congress...
...much effort, skill and good management with a $5,000 investment. Another man, less able and less hardworking, may have got a similar business going only after sinking $10,000 into it. Both may now make equal profits; but under a proposal like Henry Morgenthau's, the abler, harder-working man would be allowed to keep only half as much profit as his less competent competitor...
...trying to bull its way through trouble, the Second had violated another Pattonism. Meeting abler anti-tank tactics from the 27th and 30th than it had expected, it had lost many tanks. D.S.C.Man Patton had warned them of the danger of 75s along the roadside. Said he (amended version): "Never engage in a scenting match with a skunk." The Second, relying on its own strength, had failed to use its infantry, and the failure had been expensive. It had also failed to coordinate its work with its allied Fifth Division, and been cited by the umpires for the failure...