Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nonetheless the White Paper says flatly that the Government is willing to take "the responsibility for taking action at the earliest possible stage to arrest a threatened slump. This involves a new approach and a new responsibility for the state...
...Kimmel, nettled at the Navy's dillydallying decision to delay until 1945 his trial for the Pearl Harbor disaster,* wrote a letter to Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, declared the "whole story of Pearl Harbor" has not been told, requested a "trial by court-martial at the earliest practicable date...
Tojo boasted: "During the last two years Japan has brought her fighting strength to such a level that she is now ready to make use of the earliest opportunity to deal the enemy troops a decisive blow and frustrate all enemy efforts." Tokyo commentators added: "The day for a large-scale Japanese campaign is drawing close." As Tojo well knew, he was talking through his hat: he had about as much chance of deciding when the big events would come as Hitler had of deciding D-day in western Europe. He could only guess where the next big blow would...
...Mark Gayn's earliest memories is of a file of Chinese soldiers marching past his father's house in Manchuria. Civilians marching with them carried long poles from which swung a row of decapitated heads. Gayn also remembers (when he was seven) huddling with his mother on the floor while Chinese bandits' bullets whistled through the windows...
...wave of his right hand and forearm, the old man talked for two hours without glancing at a note. But the generalities of his review added little to the Senators' information. His main theme: in wartime the State Department's primary task is to help win the earliest possible victory with the fewest possible losses. Nearly all questions should be held for the peace table...