Word: ascendant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took the cheers-I heard the pleas-which tried to ascend the wall of tragic and unnatural silence behind which the French people are imprisoned, which were directed toward the President of the United States-and toward the American nation. The French are enormously grateful to the American people-"for being chic, you know, for showing, et si largement, to the best man that they knew how to appreciate his merits. . . ." As the French see it, the American people have made a gesture of friendship for France in electing their President, their first-and last-friend...
...took Albania, which gave him a jumping-off place on the far side. Thence an Italian Army, unless it meets opposition from the forces of some real power, could make its way through Greece, or via Monastir in Yugoslavia to Salonika. From that point it could either ascend the Vardar River Valley towards Nish, or if that route is blocked by Hitler, make its way into Bulgaria up the Struma and Maritsa Valleys, or along the coast toward the Dardanelles...
...Diringshofen, is centrifugal force. "In a bombing attack the bombs are often released in an almost vertical dive at a speed which may be above 310 miles an hour and are released when the aeroplane is only 2,200-1,900 feet above the ground. Immediately the bomber must ascend to avoid the ground." If such a change in direction takes place in about six seconds, the pilot is pressed into his seat with a force more than eight times his weight, and his blood becomes heavier than iron...
...instruction in what to do when the submarine obstinately refuses to rise from the ocean bed. Harvard groups will have the opportunity to ascend from imaginary ocean depths in a cylindrical tank over fifty feet deep. Oxygen is supplied by a "lung...
...Lord Halifax contends, German youth has been "deliberately deprived of the elements of true judgment," this is hardly its own fault. It has been misled by its chauvinistic leaders, who, as his Lordship should remember, could only ascend to power in a Germany that had been crippled by Allied chauvinism at Versailles. Thus, if the German intellect has suffered a general blackout, Lord Halifax and his peace-loving generation should take their full share of credit...