Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such a man too is Frank Morisette, 55, a fighting bantam who set up Chrysler's gun arsenal, cut the finishing time on anti-aircraft guns from 400 hours to 15 minutes. Morisette's standard approach to all problems is: "Let's go out and look at the goddamn thing." Such is Eddie Hunt, 50, of Chrysler's tank arsenal, who is built like an iron safe and never wore a white shirt until last year. Such is slim Roscoe Smith, the Willow Run manager, a veteran tool & diemaker, who at 50 looks...
Survivors of a sunken U.S. tanker told of a submarine that callously ran down two lifeboats and a liferaft. But another sub commander gallantly permitted a fully lighted neutral vessel to approach a sinking freighter and pick up survivors...
...taking sentries, advises Mr. Levy, the back is the best approach. If that is not possible, the guerrilla covers the sentry with his revolver, steps on his foot, unbuttons his tunic and jerks it down over his arms to lock them. "You may slap his ears with the revolver barrel, to intimidate him. . . . You should also drop his trousers to lock his feet...
...Representing the intellectual classes in their countries," Dennett said, "the students should be a fairly accurate indication of the sentiments with which their country will approach a peace conference after...
...reorganization: "It provides practical autonomy for air and ground forces except where unity of effort is required as task forces in a theater of operations. It abolishes in one stroke stereotyped or crystallized procedure which has grown up in the process of time under conditions that did not even approach the tremendous task now facing the War Department...