Word: direst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everything we do must be directed toward winning that war. ... All officers must be made to understand that in unwarranted criticism of any ally we are simply playing into the hands of the Axis. In the case of an American officer, he will be subject to the direst punishment I can possibly inflict administratively...
...direst administrative punishments (i.e., short of court-martial) likely to be imposed for unmannerly "criticism": public reprimand, a lowly detail, or ignominious return...
Under the whiplash of World War II's direst crisis, the U.S. Army had poured troops, arms and supplies into the British Isles for a second-front fighting force. Yet the machine was a long way from being tuned up, would not run at full power before spring. One measure of its progress: the last cogs in its high command were supplied only last week...
...people at home wondered why they had heard so little from these forces (in three weeks, only the Andamans raid and two on Rangoon were reported), Lewis Brereton knew the answer. Except in direst need, he was done with sending insufficient forces into battle. When he struck, he would strike with enough to defeat and destroy his enemies, the Japs across the Bay. It was a resolve, a policy which General Brereton had acquired the hard and bloody...
This Committee has concealed its motives in the past; perhaps it is concealing them still. Perhaps it is guilty of the direst accusations of the left. It may not be concerned with preserving a dynamic democracy in this country. Conscription, which it supported vigorously, is a weapon that can be used for an attack upon democracy. White himself recently said, in effect, that it was treason to oppose invasion of the European continent, for he asserted appeasement was treason, and defined appeasement as a stalemate peace leaving Germany in control of the continent. The Committee is now working for repeal...