Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the prevalent opinion in military and academic circles that a Long War will require an endless number of men with technical training, the preparation of the endless number continues to operate on a hand-to-mouth basis. Army and Navy courses for scientists and linguists have been filled, but usually with no qualified applicants to spare. Doubling the Army within a year will call for many repetitions of the Government courses at M. I. T. and Cruft, but only the most slip-shod arrangements have been made for supplying enough men to take them...
This was a real fight, out in the open, with no punches pulled. It was a hopeful sign. In the old defense agencies there had seldom been a really good fight. Down OPM's endless corridors, challenges and sneers had burrowed like voices in a cave, diminishing to futile silence: when all was quiet again, nothing had changed, nothing had been settled...
Bigger Than Baruch. Nelson took over his enormous job with one enormous advantage: he had consistently avoided involvement in the endless internecine politics of Washington. He had avoided politics to such an extent that he had been criticized for pulling punches. But his 28 years of training as a middleman had helped fit him for the post of middleman of defense. Though some businessmen called him too New Dealish, no New Dealer thought him a hidebound reactionary...
...Next Steps. To secure a quick knockout in the South Pacific the Imperial Fleet has a hard and dirty way ahead. It must at all costs maintain the two principal operations in Malaya and the Philippines. This means a hazardous and endless duty of convoying, supplying, transporting troops, a duty subject to raiding by U.S., British and Dutch submarines, planes and surface craft. The Japanese Fleet must also continue to harass the U.S. lines of communication. It must, above all, be wary of Allied offensive action, which might take many forms...
...Endless variety seems to be the keynote of most calls the personal has to answer. So the man who wanted to know where he could sell his body received only a bland statement that the Medical School no longer paid for outside contributions...