Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason the United Nations often appear to be losing the war is their shortage of shipping. But in one important respect that shortage may soon mean little. The U.S., along with Canada, is perfecting a chain of Arctic and north Atlantic air bases. Already bombers and patrol planes can give convoys continuous air protection, all the way across the North Atlantic. U.S. fighters as well as bombers may soon be delivered to Europe...
General Stilwell chain-smoked cigarets in a long black holder, incessantly chewed gum, exchanged orders and information in his fluent Chinese (the fruit of 13 years' service in China). When Jap bombers broke up his conferences, he calmly took cover and kept on chewing gum. He soon saw that the Japanese blocked the way to Toungoo, that relief of the town was impossible without air support. A Chinese field radio flashed an order to the commander in Toungoo; at an appointed place and hour, he was to lead his men in a break through the Japanese lines. General Stilwell...
Naturally, there were no funds to purchase stars from other teams, so Rickey dreamed up the farm system, i.e., buying minor-league clubs and developing young players on them. At first the other big-league teams hooted at "Rickey's chain gang," but by 1926 it began to pay off spectacularly. That year the Cards won not only the pennant but the World Series...
Classrooms for the Navy's primary school are studios of Television Station W9XBK, which smart, rich theater chain men John and Barney Balaban (of Balaban & Katz) offered free to the Navy, a week after Pearl Harbor. After 90 days at W9XBK (which continues to televise for Chicago's 200 receivers), Loop sailors will move on to advanced schools near Washington, at Noroton Heights, Conn., or San Francisco...
...clever in its thematic manipulation, that it seems, at times, too pat. But emotion is not lacking in it, or in "Watch on the Rhine" which builds to a tremendous climax of sentiment. Other recent melodramas, such as "Angel Street" and "Ladies In Retirement," are based primarily on a chain of circumstances, cunningly joined together by the author, but mood is an essential part of the atmosphere of these plays, and sentiment is obviously used to create sympathy for the murdered ones or the murderer...