Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diverted to the western air front are just so many planes lost to the Axis forces in Russia and in southern Europe-whether the fighters come from Luftwaffe reserves or from other fronts. Also lost are bombers which will never be built because the Germans have shifted their main effort to producing defensive fighters...
...imminence of victory-"Sudden waves of optimism [lead] the public to feel that we have made our great effort and the end is in sight. This is far from the case. We are just getting well started. The great battles lie ahead. We have yet to be proven in the agony of enduring heavy casualties, as well as the reverses which are inevitable in war. What we need now is a stoic determination to overwhelm the enemy, cost what...
...Princeton ('09), picked on Mindanao while at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. He married a fellow townswoman, reached the Philippines in 1915. Effa Seely Laubach kept house and the books. They lost two sons due to lack Of hospital facilities. But a quarter century of hardship and effort has only increased Laubach's confidence in his call. In The Silent Billion Speak, latest of his numerous rapturous books, he writes that "if we can untangle Christ from the terrible handicap of Christendom, which has kept so many millions from Him, we will be doing ... a priceless service...
While first-graders learn about Negro policemen and Pullman porters, other primary pupils (white and colored) are being told of Negro contributions to civilization, U.S. history, the war effort. Examples of Negro subject matter woven into the general class material...
Even this poke-in-the-nose failed to draw a retraction from O'Donnell, whose unsubstantiated blockbuster was a Jcruel blow to the WAACs and the war effort...