Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would just like to remind TIME that you are, however, excepting the Mongolian invasion of Japan in the 13th Century. In this second effort to dominate Japan, the Mongols used 3,500 ships, the largest amphibious military operation ever attempted...
Perhaps the greatest change in TIME over the past twenty years has been a gradual one, however: the quiet and steady expansion of every department in an effort to make each one so authoritative in its field that it can stand inspection under the expert's microscope...
...There are powerful groups who hope to take advantage of the President's concentration on the war effort to destroy everything he has accomplished on the domestic front. . . . Inevitably [they will] be exposed to the public...
...those are the surprises. The rest of the time these actors go corky on their lines, overact operatically or sit and talk. Above all they talk. A tremendous effort has been made in this adaptation to keep Author Hemingway's characters intact. But the adaptation is too literary, too theatrical...
...latest "contribution" to the war effort is last Friday's hammy play on words, whereby he indirectly refers to Naval Supply Officers as "those cellophaned commissioned male WAVES," harping on an isolated story be heard from somebody who heard it from somebody else. It reminds us of that cheap jibe at the morality of the WAVES delivered by another sheddy "newsman," which served only to make the WACS and WAVES recruiting job that much tougher...