Word: developers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would Alexander try to by-pass and encircle Rome, or attack it directly? What was to prevent him from staging another beachhead operation north of the city? Would he develop another flanking movement far to the east, at Pescara on the Adriatic...
...dreadful staleness" while "an exclusively male community seems to lack emotional drive and spontaneity." Prisoners are always hungry: there is never enough to eat, although light diet makes for fitness, up to a point. Red Cross parcels are lifesavers but monotonous. The total lack of privacy makes a man develop "a kind of reptilian insensitiveness-like crocodiles in their tank at the Zoo, which walk over each other without either appearing to notice the other...
...teacher-training from Calvert manuals, which are almost parent-proof. Though some find pedagogy tough going, most of their pupils do very well. Mothers with kindergarten children get instructions on how to teach, play games, punish, tell stories, test intelligence, deal with lefthandedness, lying, disobedience, sex problems, how to develop morals, neatness, courtesy, concentration, imagination. Sample instruction: "Obedience ... is the first requisite for ... proper instruction . . . the first habit to be inculcated. . . . Both willingness and ability [to obey] may be made a habit . . . the child should never be allowed to argue, dispute or question orders. . . . Say 'I want...
Russia is the only other nation to develop analogues and put them to similar use. When a high U.S. weather officer visited Russia in 1942, he found parallel developments, forthwith began American-Russian meteorological collaboration. Later a Russian mission, including Lieut. Colonel S. T. Pagava, chief long-range forecaster, came to the U.S., traded more technical information. Now the British Meteorologic Office and the Admiralty have sets of U.S. archive charts, and duplicates are on file in every key weather station throughout the Allied world...
Cork Trees and Seduction. Count Grandsailles was France's most brilliant statesman. "With the leftist ideas of his right-hand partner the Count would mildly bring out the rightist ideas of his left-hand partner, and with the rightist ideas of his left-hand partner, he would moderately develop the leftist ideas of his right-hand partner." His chief passion was planting cork trees. But for five years the Count had practised "mutual seduction" with beautiful Solange de Cleda. A horse-lover, he "was always tempted to tap Solange on the buttocks and give her a piece of sugar...