Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Return. There was little disruption of service on big city dial systems, but calls through small-town manual switchboards virtually ceased. Everywhere essential calls went through. WLB condemned the walkouts as threats to the war effort, ordered the strikers back to work. But the strikes went...
...Third was fighting far to the south of Bradley's main effort, on the lower side of the wooded uplands of the Ardennes, which stretch across Luxembourg into the central Rhineland. Strategically the Third's campaign was still a part of the U.S.-French effort to clear the Germans from Alsace-Lorraine (and incidentally to trap some of the 50,000 enemy troops which had been holding the Vosges...
Virginius Dabney has arrived at his liberal views by patient, thoughtful effort and constant conflict with his patrician heritage. His editorials, ground out with painful slowness, are almost pedantically preoccupied with both sides of the question. They are invariably prosaic and humorless. His advocacy last year of the abolition of Jim Crow busses and streetcars in Virginia, which set the whole South on its ear, was put forward in a quiet editorial entitled "The Conservative Course in Race Relations." Excerpt: "Many Virginians probably do not know it, but we have now arrived at the point where radicals from the North...
...Seconds Over Tokyo (M.G.M.) is a very sincere effort to do something almost hopelessly difficult on the screen: to remain true to a true story. In every respect this effort to tell the truth about the Doolittle raid is a tribute to the patience of its quiet, thorough producer, Sam Zimbalist; in many respects, it is successful...
...politically potent Association, distrustful of the professionals in the Regular Army, has been a determined dissenter to the theory that regulars should dictate a national military policy. The National Guard Association is in favor of compulsory military training. But it has made it clear that it will fight any effort to ram legislation through before...