Word: assessing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were also angrily certain that their superiors had been caught without an adequate plan of defense. They complained that many of their unit commanders were no good. The German soldiers fought well, and their divisions as a whole put up a performance which Allied commanders will remember when they assess the German Army's ability to defend the continent. But in captivity the Germans had the sound of men who knew that they were condemned to sacrificial defense, in an area which their superiors had expected to lose...
...suppose I am not the one to assess Mr. Roosevelt. The Republican Party has two schools of thought about him. Two methods of assessment. One wing rather casually sometimes speaks of him 'trippingly on the tongue' as 'that God damn Roosevelt,' short, snappy and staccato-but without grinding the vocal gears. The other crowd snarls it savagely, adagio, making two words out of God-like Gaw-ud-and two out of damn-like da-yam-growled with heart-pumping scorn and generally with a table-pounding drum beat. I belong to the lighter, staccato left wing...
...matter of administration, but somebody must be given the power to readjust the college quotas to the relative needs of each of the armed services. Instead of fighting neck and neck to drag men away from each other, the Army and Navy should, together with the Selective Service Board, assess the total college manpower and set up their quotas so as to use it most efficiently...
...deepest fear is that the Russian armies should be destroyed; that they should be encircled, trapped or minced to pieces by superior steel. No wild imagining is needed to assess the results. Hitler could return westward with countless legions, unnumbered machines, could devote all his energies to settling his accounts with this island. He would have riches to gamble and weapons to squander. This conclusion we dare not in our senses contemplate...
WPBoss Donald Nelson set up a Food Requirements Committee, put the energetic, ambitious Wickard in charge, gave a nine-man board his blessing and fiat to assess civilian, military and foreign food needs and to control crop plantings to meet those requirements. Nelson cagily kept two checks & balances: as head of the vast production-supply agency, he will O.K. the committee's moves; food-rationing powers remain in the hands of OPA's Henderson...