Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late, they have been changing so many horses. . . . We do not propose to deny the progress that has been made during the last decade. Neither do we aim to repeal it. Whatever its source, if it is good we will acknowledge it. If it is sound we will build on it. We do not aim to turn the clock back and make an issue of every administration mistake in the past eleven years...
...safe and, for a Jap, a sane, solid way to build a reputation. The only trouble was that, no matter how safely an officer tried to set his course, there were obstacles-like calculating Spruance and wizened, air-wise Marc Mitscher. And they were not passive obstacles: they were closing around him like a tightening clamp. They were closing inexorably on the Empire where Shimada had worked so hard and dully to be a great naval captain...
With the U.S. clicking out war materials, Charlie Wilson is eager to get on to his next big job: to get G.E. ready for peace. Said he: "We've got to build practically from the ground up. . . . Some of the biggest plants (refrigerators, electric ranges, radios, toasters), have been taken out of existence as plants. Machine layouts have been completely removed. Conveyors have been dismantled. All of these have to be put together again. It's one hell...
...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...