Word: elasticize
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Mme. Chiang Kai-shek told newsmen in Chungking she had nearly wound up on a Jap airfield on her way home. Her pilot, confused by radio signals from the field, had headed for it, then pulled away on a hunch. "I was feeling so sick at that moment," said Madame...
The Elastic Wall. Neutrality is not a stiff wall of defense; it is elastic. When a neutral power holds the bridgeway between two theaters, the elasticity increases. Then neutrality involves giving inches at the right time to the right power, playing one power off against another. It involves careful analysis...
One elastic girdle in good condition was found among the personal effects of the late John ("The Great Profile") Barrymore.
Over the marshy coastal plain of the Taman Peninsula rumbled hundreds of Soviet tanks and guns, perhaps 150,000 men. They cracked through Field Marshal Fritz von Manstein's defenses, pushed the Germans slowly back toward the narrow Kerch Strait, separating the Crimea from the Caucasus. Berlin radio claimed...
That is all there is to it-plotwise. But the characters are continuously funny with each other and with their properties -including a slingshot which consists of a pair of Charles Coburn's pants and their attached elastic suspenders.