Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Appraising the gains from the Navy's first offensive, Admiral King and other Navy men noticeably do not accent the relative U.S. and Japanese sea losses. One reason probably is that naval officers do for themselves what the Navy seldom does for the public: they add up the total losses in the campaign, and weigh them against the Navy's remaining strength, instead of dwelling upon the results of individual actions...
...America. Put aside for a moment the marvelous memories of the spirit of "This is the Army," put aside the personalities of Crosby and Astaire, and run over all two dozen of the songs from these shows. If you can remember more than six, you must admit than the add up to a poor total...
...battered Boise came home for repairs last week, the U.S. people could add Mike Moran's seven words to the small and oft-repeated catalogue of their heroes' laconic battle phrases. They were better words, perhaps, than John Paul Jones's "I have not yet begun to fight," better, certainly, than Commodore George Dewey's pale and measured, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley." They mirrored the tempo of 1942's savage fighting, they caught the spirit of a confident U.S.: the bigger they are the harder they fall...
...Casablanca concerns the efforts of Laszlo and his wife to leave Morocco. Rick has two letters of transit which would make that easy. Reluctant to help, Mr. Bogart at last does the manly thing and Mr. Rains saves him from the consequences. Nothing short of an invasion could add much to Casablanca...
Poll tax repeal will not free the South from demagogues. It is significant that Huey Long found it advisable to repeal the poll taxd when he came to power in Louisiana. Far from freeing Congress of such specimens as "Mississippi's Bilbonic plague," it will merely add to the electorate more of the ignorant white farmers who form their support...