Word: assets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis' one asset was the Italian commander in the Balkans, General Carlo Vecchiarelli, who is violently anti-Ally. But General Vecchiarelli can do little, and he might even go with the tide, if some 400,000 Italian soldiers turn actively against the Germans...
...quite some time we have been meaning to unburden ourselves on the subject of calisthenics. Despite the inconvenience of early rising and physical exertion, calisthenics unquestionably are an asset. And the current practice of allowing each class to conduct its own program has more in its favor than against...
...sportswriters, who kept saying he was through, every year since 1935. Each season-as his big-league total rose to 18-knuckle-baller Fitz rocked into his half-spin, his "butterfly" ball fluttered, cajoled and deceived .300 hitters. An easygoing storehouse of baseball knowledge, Fitz should be an immeasurable asset to the Phillies' personnel...
...these weeks have already been instructive--we have learned to ride bicycles with savoir faire through the teeming traffic of Harvard Square, how to fill out pay receipts, we hope, how our pay accounts are figured out-well, almost. When the fog lifts, if ever, we will be an asset, not only to the WAVES, but to the Supply Corps. When and if, Congress passes the bill, we will be truly "Ready for Sea" after we have been there for some time...
Something Rare. Even without talent, Miss Bergman would bring something rare to U.S. films. To cite one single asset which is hers almost exclusively, her photographed flesh looks neither like a Crane fixtures ad nor sponge rubber nor the combined efforts of a fashionable portraitist and a rural mortician; it looks like flesh. Many people, since life must go on, find this attractive, even when it surprises them to see it on the screen. The same thing goes for her poise, sincerity, reticence, sensitiveness and charm...