Word: elasticize
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Success in Fluidity? All this suggested that the Germans on the southern front had been forced to go over (as Rommel did when he left El Alamein) from rigid to elastic defense. They had been forced to do so because of the Russian mastery of winter tactics and because of...
Retreat to the Reich? Moscow said that the Germans were rushing up reserves and new equipment to stop the Russians. Berlin talked of "elastic German defenses leading to further withdrawals." Perhaps the Germans were withdrawing under duress. Perhaps the Russians were pursuing more than attacking but wanted to make their...
Adolf Hitler's retreat to elastic defenses may have been too late for anything less than the complete failure of his Russian campaign. If so, his only hope is to withdraw to the Reich and convert it (and Western Europe) into an impregnable fortress (TIME, Feb. 8). But that...
Nemo started making corsets and brassieres 48 years ago, had smooth sailing except for batting down its reputation as a "heavy women's house" and finding girdle names that punsters could not twist into something nasty. It got into war work ten months ago when the elastic shortage mildly...
Closely related to it is isoprene (also called methyl butadiene). Although isoprene is the basic unit in natural rubber, it is useless by itself. But when isobutylene and isoprene are polymerized together the result is Standard Oil's butyl, tough, very elastic, now favored for inner tubes. It is...