Word: build-up
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President Truman was known to be worried about relations with Russia. Harry Hopkins in Moscow, said London sources, had found out that Stalin was worried, too. Stalin had gone all out for cooperation with capitalist countries; the build-up of Yalta and Dumbarton Oaks in Russia would make a shift embarrassing. The Russian people certainly did not want to contemplate the prospect of World War III. Maxim Litvinov, who represents those Communists who believe in cooperation with capitalist democracy, was pointedly brought from his obscurity to attend a Moscow dinner for Hopkins...
After one and a half years' absence from the Pacific War Theater, Gilbert Cant, TIME military writer, has just completed an air tour of the chief Pacific bases. These are his impressions of the vast U.S. build-up since...
...marines had lost sight of the target in the fog of battle, the San Francisco Chronicle had not. It roundly thumped Hearst for running down the marines in order to build up General MacArthur-who needed no build-up at anyone's expense. Observed the Chronicle: "Sinister fantasy ... to hint that the marines die fast and move slowly . . . because marine and naval leadership ... is incompetent...
...recording was stopped. Another (a 1942 speech) was put on. There were the same old phrases, the same bombast, the same guttural sarcasm. There could be little doubt. Delivery, syllabic emphasis and sentence build-up harmonized perfectly. There was only one difference: Hitler's 1945 voice lacked the fire of three years ago, but the fury remained...
...build-up was terrific. Sport pages groaned with the burden of adjectives striving to describe the forthcoming super-colossus. And when Army and Navy finally did get down to the business of beating each other's brains out, it certainly was a game of games. But the miracle that would have made it live up to the advance billing was AWOL. So was the upset that incurable hopefuls had held their breath for. When it was over, Army was still the best in the land and Navy was runner...