Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Though we have done a good job of killing the enemy, I find no sign of an organized hate in any of our men. . . . Our men come closer to hating those at home who break faith with us at the fronts-the shirkers, the profiteers, those who bicker in Washington over our rights. If the powers that be in America deny us in the service the right to an easy, practical way of voting, they will live to regret it. And to the last man our group js not in accord with What some people in the states are trying...
...course, even before Pearl Harbor TIME started the world's first plane-delivered magazine (TIME Air Express for Latin America), thereby bringing our troops in the Canal Zone and all over the Caribbean many news-days closer to home. TIME was also the first American magazine to publish in Mexico City (to get the news faster to Mexico and Central America), in Bogotá (to get the news faster to Brazil and Uruguay), and in Buenos Aires (to get the news faster to the Argentine). And a few months ago TIME, with its Scandinavian Edition printed in Stockholm, became...
...south Douglas MacArthur's troops tightened up their hold on the Admiralties, moved ever closer to Rabaul. The 37th and Americal divisions fought off fierce counterattacks from the Japs trapped on Bougainville, killed them on the barbed wire and in the jungles at the rate...
...control seemed cinched last week when 1) a horseless cavalry division made the key of the Admiralty Islands (Los Negros) theirs for keeps and 2) Marines jumped closer to Rabaul, the failing Jap stronghold on New Britain...
...several times. But he has no clain to expertness in the endless subtleties and complexities of foreign relations. He shows none of the scholarly inclinations in the field of international affairs which have distinguished his great predecessors in the Foreign Relations chairmanship. In knowledge and experience he ranks far closer to William J. ("Gumshoe Bill") Stone, the Missouri lawyer-politician who stubbornly opposed Wilson's war policies as chairman in 1914-18, than to the real statesmen who have held his job. Henry Clay (1834-36) had already served a term as Secretary of State before coming...