Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wits in the battalion is working on a treatise entitled, "Mistaken identify, or the Greyhound drivers get shoulder boards," but any similarity between this literary effort and a current Alnav is to be denied...
...estimated 1,000,000 of the 3,623,000 men now classified 4-F are contributing nothing whatever to the war effort...
...vehicles for his heavier weapons. But often he still must slog along, up hill & down, through mud and through dust, toting all this new arsenal of weapons to the point of action, and then fight with them. He has to be lavish in his expenditure of physical effort under the worst of physical conditions. He also has to have guts to fight in situations where there is no possible safety for any man. And to fight effectively he has to be master of his weapon, and in the infantry today there are probably masters of more diverse techniques...
...General Mud could be only partly accounted for by superior technique. In part it was certainly traceable to the simple fact that the Russians had the morale of the winning side. While the Germans wearily struggled with the mud in retreat, the Russians went at their backbreaking, grimy effort with the enthusiasm of men who knew that they were conquering...
...There is a large number of respectable and even eminent people who are not at all burdened with responsibility, who have a lot of leisure on their hands and who think most sincerely that the best work they can do at this present time of hard effort and anxiety is to belabor the Government. . . . This National Government which has led the nation and empire and, as I hold, a large part of the world out of mortal danger, through the dark valleys into which they had wandered, largely through their own folly, back onto the broad uplands where the stars...