Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most extraordinary is the vote for bigger participation in world affairs after the war: 58.4%. Asked to particularize, 82.1% of those in this group voted either to join an international union of democracies to keep order, or to join forces with Britain for that purpose, or to try doing it all by ourselves...
Last of the 35,000-tonners (Alabama) will be launched in three months. The battlewagons that will follow her will be still more fearsome. Two (Iowa and New Jersey) will displace 45,000 tons. Two others now on the ways (Missouri and Wisconsin) will be still bigger. Planned but not yet on the ways are seven more. Two will be 45,000 tons or bigger; the other five will be the biggest, most powerful ever launched-58,000 tons. The Big Five (Montana, Ohio, Maine, New Hampshire and Louisiana) will not be laid down until oversize ways have been prepared...
...McCormick, the isolationist scream-bomb, this was a remarkable concession. If the U.S. were to enter the war he might well make much bigger concessions in the name of patriotism-as he and his cousin Joe Patterson (now publisher of the even more successful New York Daily News) did in World War I. If the Colonel again begins whipping up fighting spirit as hotly as he now does isolation, his shift will doubtless cut some interventionist ground from under Marshall Field's Chicago Sun. But the real question of how much strength the Colonel can muster for the battle...
...June 1940, General Wavell had a compact little army in the Western Desert. He moved it easily and beautifully, holding off an Italian force ten times the size of his own. Gradually, as the Middle Eastern forces expanded under his feet, he floated out of depth. The bigger the force, equipment and units he had to handle became, the harder General Wavell found it to keep control...
This month, the Citizens Committee plans to send the first two of seven musicals around the military circuit, playing them in the Army & Navy's bigger theaters, putting on two shows a night...