Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...witnessing an extraordinary spectacle-that of the richest nation in the world facing a catastrophic food shortage. . . . This senseless calamity, with all its grave repercussions upon the war effort and the future of the world, is happening in a country which is not only agriculturally one of the richest areas on the earth's surface, but normally one of the best equipped with modern machinery. . . . Very nearly every possible handicap has been placed on the production of more food and even of maintaining the normal supply...
...Robert P. Patterson announced that the World War I ace spoke "as an individual and not as an Army officer." The sober Republican New York Herald Tribune allowed: "It does seem true that the World War ace lacks information on some of the obstacles to the all-out production effort he insists upon...
...planes ranged over Japanese bases in the northern Solomons. Presumably they took off from hard-won Guadalcanal. Apparently their effort was to immobilize other Jap bases, as they had Munda, with assault...
Goebbels broadcast a frank admission that Germany was in danger of being overwhelmed by "the whole wild greatness" of Russia's unsuspected military power. And he made the most open effort yet to split the U.S. and Britain from Russia: "What would England and the U.S. do if the European continent fell into the hands of the Bolsheviks...
There was embarrassed silence when she quoted the Chinese proverb: "It takes little effort to watch the other fellow carry the load"; and when she made her most pointed thrust: "Midway and the Coral Sea are . . . merely steps in the right direction...