Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grand strategic scale, the whole Allied effort between Luxembourg and Switzerland seemed also a diversion. It forced the Germans to protect the Saar, the Moselle approach to Trier and Coblenz, and the Lorraine gate to Karlsruhe, while the heaviest blows of the new winter drive are delivered in the north...
According to this account, the Nazis may have discovered an entirely new approach to atomic explosives. Before wartime censorship blacked out all talk of atomic experiments, it was known that most scientists put their atom-smashing hopes mainly in cyclotronic bombardment of atoms with deuterons-the heavy hydrogen nuclei derived from heavy water. Individual atoms have been smashed, but in a bomb atoms must explode in quantity, each disintegrating atom setting off others. The new Nazi experiments are said to be along lines suggested by the composition of the "White Dwarf," companion of Sirius, which is the densest known star...
...Germans could not hold everywhere : their collapse in Hungary meant that the Danube approach to Austria had become a fourth crusher point against the Reich (see map). Eisenhower in the west and Stalin in the east had the superiority in manpower, material and generalship to wear out the enemy quickly when they brought their full weight to bear...
Death in the Night. They are noisy, and gaps between U.S. positions are relatively large. Consequently, infiltration is easily accomplished. Dawn and dusk are best times for attack. It is especially easy to approach U.S. positions and launch an attack when it is raining, inasmuch as U.S. soldiers lie low in their trenches and try to stay under cover of their ponchos...
...Something of this was immediately reflected in the first approach to study of the situation in Southern California," the study continues. "Everywhere the need for the best in applied science and technical skill was fully understood, the chief handicap being a shortage of technically competent workmen. And it all points to the advantages of balanced operation--an increased quantity of production, lowered costs of production, and a reduction in extravagant absence records and turnover. This reduction benefits not only individuals but also industry as a whole...