Word: build-up
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Suppose the mayor issued a statement giving a big build-up to what he had done, and suppose the opposition leader hit back with a statement contradicting the mayor's claims. The newspaper, of course, would print both sides in full. But how would your far-away friends know which to believe if you just mailed them the two statements without digging deep yourself to find where the mayor was telling the whole truth and where he was drawing the long bow-where his opponent was being unfair and where he was scoring a good point? And if both...
...British and Canadian forces on his left flank as a parry to ward off. Rommel's jabs, while he used Lieut. General Omar N. Bradley's U.S. army in a right swing against Cherbourg. Simultaneously, Montgomery had to win the "Battle of the Build-up." He had to bring in, over the beaches and through emergency landing facilities on the Bay of the Seine, enough men and material to make sure that he could stop the major counterblow by Rommel if & when it came...
...stops were pulled out. The robots were nicknamed "Dynamite Meteors" and "Hellhounds." The German people were solemnly told that they were falling like rain; that England's fate was sealed; that Britain had already been forced to order immediate evacuation of London. How this build-up would react on the German people when the anticlimactic truth came back was just another one of Dr. Goebbels' problems of the close future...
...small contingent of the West Coast boys are answering the call of the Rockies, but others are heading South. Messrs. McClelland and Howsie plan to investigate the wonders of Miami, after the build-up given, the little city by Florida's gift to the Supply Corps. Incidentally, we might welcome the aforementioned Floridian as Transportation instructor for the coming term. Glad to have you aboard...
...Colonel's build-up has been terrific. You get the impression out this way that he is a superman, barking orders to the Middle West from the top of Tribune Tower. . . . The reality is simpler. . . . The Colonel doesn't like what is happening in the world. Instead of looking forward to a new solution, he wants to go back to a time when, as he sees it, everything was clear and simple and good...