Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purpose of the merger, which will take effect actively in the fall term, is to eliminate the duplication of effort which has marked the activities of the two groups during the past term. On several occasions both organizations offered forums on similar topics at the same time...
...turned from its victories in the West to overrun the Balkans and penetrate Russia, Wedemeyer was assigned to the War Plans Division. His job was to draw up the first overall war plan for the U.S. After Pearl Harbor, his estimates became the basic pattern of the U.S. war effort. By 1942's end, Wedemeyer was a member of Marshall's inner group, a key figure in overall strategy. He had become a general's general. He accompanied General Marshall on all the great conferences from Casablanca through Teheran. He had an important hand in Allied Mediterranean...
...strenuous as it seemed: he always delivered basically the same speech. On a typical day, he was whisked 50 dusty miles by auto from Regina to Indian Head, Saskatchewan. In the town's 100-seat theater, he labored stolidly through his speech. Chief points: Canada's war effort has been sad; there must be military conscription for the Pacific war. Text finished, he talked brightly with the farmers about crops, had tea, raced for Regina and his train...
...supreme triumph, it was what the British call in tennis a "noble effort." Whatever else can be said, it remains true that those "golden girls and lads" have been memorizing lines of immortal reputation, instead of ephemeral slang of the period; and what we memorize at twenty stays by us, as Mr. Kittredge knew when he assigned those hundreds of lines to be reproduced at midyears and finals...
...smell of their public-school administration. They called on the National Education Association, lumbering but potent watchdog representing some 900,000 U.S. teachers, to investigate. But when N.E.A.'s investigators appeared, they were brusquely told to devote themselves instead "to making some contribution to the war and defense effort." For the first time anywhere, N.E.A. was barred from public school records and classes...