Word: employables
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impressed by the weakness of the Japanese artillery and the failure of the enemy to employ mines with anything like the diabolical thoroughness of Kesselring's Army in Italy. The 1st Imperials have perhaps four .75s on the Ormoc road. Their fire has been woefully ineffective except against an easy point-blank target. . . . You can drive right up to the front without drawing a storm of artillery or getting blown skyhigh by mines...
...William wants his budget guided only by three rules: 1) spending must always be sufficient for full employment; 2) spending must be directed to essentials; 3) it is usually better to tax than to borrow. Total outlay at all times must be sufficient for full employment. The WPA idea is lifted to new heights when Beveridge declares: "It is better to employ people on digging holes and filling them up again than not to employ them...
...indoor rowing machines employ the same principle as the treadmill, with the rower putting considerable effort into his work but apparently making no headway. Actual progress is not noted until the following spring when the rower steps into a real shell...
...terrible months of reverses in 1941, right up until the battle for Moscow was won. In those months the writers became so closely identified with the very courage and determination which has finally beaten Hitler back that they all developed muscular, bitter, mystical, adjectival writing styles, which they still employ in the sweeter days of triumph. Those were the days when Simonove wrote Wait For Me - the words of a soldier to his wife: Wait for me, wait very hard -Never give up hope, even if they all say I am dead; Do not believe it, but wait...
...decision was announced on what may be a considerable secondary problem: how exactly to employ Generals Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Patch, Devers, Eaker, Spaatz, et al. Will they serve under General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz...