Word: deaden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Purpose of all this: to aid enforcement of rationing, to conserve manpower and paper, to deaden the buying incentive (which might lead to dangerous inflation). Result: a flat dreariness in what advertising is left...
...Rzhev. Six hundred miles to the north, west of Moscow, the Russians had launched another offense. It began, as the one in Stalingrad began, with an artillery barrage. The Moscow front lay under a white blanket of snow. Cossack cavalrymen wrapped their horses' hoofs in burlap to deaden the sound and get a better footing on hard crust. Artillery was mounted on skis. On their first plunge into the deep and long-held German defenses the Russians reached the village of Velikie Luki, 90 miles from the border of Latvia...
...those interested in the future of the youth movement, and of its promise as a means of achieving "a better world," arose a question. Would the Draft Act serve to strengthen and unite youth in a common consciousness, as the C.C.C. and N.Y.A. legislation has done? Or would conscription deaden youth's capacity to criticize, to hope, and to construct? In the answer to that question lies our contribution to "that unknown future where free men must and shall exist...