Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Command is aware of these perils. Its aim today, according to a Swedish correspondent in Berlin, is "to establish the best possible front along which will be fought the last decisive battle...
...Pacific war. MacArthur, the country's best known four-star general, expected that too. With his sense of drama he saw himself marching back through the Philippines. People who telephoned his headquarters in Australia were startled by the greeting: "Hello, Bataan speaking." Bataan was his passionate aim; after that, Tokyo...
...talk was mainly of deflection and approach angles. Deflection is what a duck hunter calls "lead": the aim ahead of a moving target. Guns are fixed, the plane itself must be aimed. The plane and its target are both moving fast (sometimes one-sixth the speed of the bullets fired.) The whole process must be automatic. Said Joe Foss: "When you're in a fight you've got to think of shooting and nothing else. If you have to think about flying . . . well, you get killed." About deflection: "Best way to get a Jap fighter is to shoot...
...three agreed high employment must be the first aim of postwar economic policy. But Laski argued for "production for community consumption . . . [planned] by the State." Machinery-Man Johnston and Ex-Advertising-Man Benton plumped for an American ideal: "the initiative of millions which a free economy generates...
Fires leaped 150 ft. in the air. But the crew refused to abandon her. Standing on scorching decks, they tossed explosives overboard. They cursed Jap bombers but blessed their bad aim. For five days they worked 20 and 22-hour shifts before the fire was under control. All but 300 tons of cargo was saved. "Best crew I ever had," said the executive officer. "They were licked at least five times and didn't know...