Word: directness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Switzerland came a rumor with direct bearing on the Italian campaign. The report: burly, ex-Airman Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, sparkplug of the wily German defense, had followed in the tire-tracks of the late Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, been "very seriously" wounded by Allied planes which sent his automobile spinning axle over top near Bologna. Berlin said nothing...
...Boeing B-29s are a white hope of the Pacific war: military men expect them to carry the U.S. message of force direct to the Japanese people, who still seem to think that everything is hunky-dory for the New Order. Last week the B-29s took off on two different types of raids, not from their old China bases but from India, where the B-29s' vast bellies could be easily filled with gasoline and bombs...
Washington claimed two direct hits on "a Japanese ship that was in the drydock for repairs," an obvious hint that the Japs might soon find naval repairs impossible anywhere south of Japan itself...
Since U.S. soldiers direct their fire at sounds when they cannot see a target and are likely to fire their rifles blindly from their trenches, it is comparatively easy to surround their positions, if one acts with coolness and deliberation. In such cases, the best method is to attack with hand grenades and then to switch promptly to hand-to-hand combat. American soldiers are terrified by our night attacks...
...Nonviolent Good Will Direct Action." Example: "White friends precede. " Negro patrons to a table in a . . . restaurant or hotel. Upon seeing the Negro citizens denied service, [they] join the Negroes in requesting a conference with the management. ... If a conference is denied, civil-rights action . . . may be filed. ... If ... the Negro and white friends are violently ejected . . the policy . . . is not to fight back...