Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manpower Commission must recapture the power over the college field that it has now delegated to the individual services; it must reorganize the draft so that there will be no exceptions. It is wasteful to allow one service to bear alone the brunt of a manpower shortage; an efficient allocation between the Army, Navy, and industry can only be achieved through a centralized agency which has the necessary scope and breadth of vision. And aside from the imperative task of planning how many and how soon, a procedure must be found to decide who should fight, who be allowed...
Then the action became intense, every Crimson point being matched by a Penn marker. With Larry Davis, slight Quaker guard, contributing set shot after set shot, and Hennessey and Hyde bearing the brunt of the Crimson attack, the score mounted to 55-all with two minutes to play...
Chiang Kaishek, bearing the brunt of China's immense lacks and burdens, did not have to pay immediate attention to his revered sister-in-law's demands for internal reform. But her statement was also a reminder to the Western world that much more than military strategy is now involved in China...
Burditt got back into the game with his finger bandaged, but it hindered his shooting with his left hand from the pivot and the Penn captain, Chuck Viguens, bottled him up by playing him to the right. This left the brunt of the attack on Dean Hennessey, who scored nine points. Other leading scorers for Harvard were Dick Forster with six points, Hugh Hyde, and Mike Fausler, who made five each. The Harvard summary: G F P Hennessey, lf 4 1 9 Bixler, lf 1 0 2 Axon, lf 0 1 1 Dillon, rf 0 0 0 Burditt...
American fliers still bore the brunt of the fighting in the Solomons area, breaking up two more Jap bombing forays against the airdrome on Guadalcanal and attacking enemy positions on Russell Island, about 30 miles northwest of Guadalcanal