Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experience of other nations is ambiguous: peacetime conscription gave Germany and Russia good armies, but was not much help to France. Over the entire issue hangs the bigger question of the relative mobilization of the postwar world, and the still bigger question of how science will change the shape of future battles...
...damned shame." But Danny still had his troubles. Union drivers refused to deliver whiskey, and at times Danny seemed to be sweating slightly as drinkers cried, glass in hand: "You can't give in, Danny!" It was obvious that he couldn't-his clientele had gotten bigger and tougher than the union...
Forrestal's back, in fact, may soon be turned. There have been signs that he wants to get out, possibly to return to Wall Street, possibly to go into New York politics. Whether Forrestal, who has served his country long and well, wants a respite or a bigger field of operations is the secret of the close-mouthed Secretary, who still likes to work in anonymity...
...starry-eyed" missionaries (who did not make the diplomats' mistake of wanting to appease Japan) should have a bigger hand in settling the "right peace" for Asia. So pleads Chaplain Russell Cartwright Stroup, veteran of the Philippines, in the current Christian Herald...
Once this would have sounded like big talk. But last week the bustling light planemakers were full of much bigger talk. They had the fattest backlog of civilian orders in their lives. The military cutbacks, which were a curse to most of the industry Goliaths, were a blessing to its Davids. Eagerly they had cleared their plants of war work. Now reconverted, they were taking off on the biggest boom ever...