Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attacked a U.S. carrier. Said a torpedo-plane pilot who saw U.S. fighters intercept the Japs: "It looked like the sky over there was covered by a curtain of smoke streamers—a curtain of Japanese going down in flames." Only six or seven Jap bombers got close enough to aim their missiles at the carrier; all were shot down by antiaircraft fire...
...took a lot of nerve, a lot of dead-aim calculation, a fine disregard of precedent to give the answers he had made to the questions which were posed him. In World War I the Allies, with a pool of about 20,000,000 tons of shipping, drew 60% of their supplies from France, Scandinavia and Spain. They threw their 100% largely at Germany on the Western Front. This time the Allies have only about 3,000,000 tons afloat. But the world is their battlefield. Vast stores of fuel oil, rubber and other riches once available...
...Nazis thought that grey, 61-year-old George Deckers knew something about the Belgian underground movement. Maybe he did, but George Deckers was not saying. They marched him off, backed him against a wall. A firing squad took aim. But the squad lowered its rifles and George Deckers was marched back to his cell for further questioning. Still he was silent. Again he was marched to the wall. Again the squad did not fire, and George Deckers was returned to his cell for grilling...
...home again less than 75% loaded. The truckers are now setting up regional committees to pool equipment and freight, maximize loads per truck in both directions. The number of trips on certain routes will be cut. By such cooperation, and with the greatest attention to maintenance, highway operators grimly aim to get a million miles of life out of each truck, 125,000 miles (with recapping) from each tire. But none of them can see beyond...
...discontinuance of the year's official dining hall service is a prospicient and liberal decision. Remembering that Harvard's primary aim is to make its students perfect physical specimens, the University has taken this further step to insure their good health. By closing the dining halls the University also will save that fraction of their sugar ration hitherto allotted to the undergraduates. The principal motive, however, is not patriotic, but rather the fulfillment of the all-out Make-the-Students-Healthy program. In order to forestall the pending epidemic of ptomaine poisoning, the officials at Lehman Hall have ordered that...