Word: exert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...against strikes, according to Slichter is to give both laborers and employers a vivid picture of the seriousness of their emergency work. Graphic monthly charts showing the race of industrial production between Germany and America would give the American laborer a more tangible feeling of competition, inspiring him to exert his fullest effort to out do his totalitarian opponent...
...country's present misery and sorrow, Guy believes that it has one advantage over other democracies, the advantage of looking the truth squarely in the face. To win a war a nation must exert every possible effort and sacrifice to reach its goal. For seven consecutive years, Guy noted, Hitler has been pushing his people to the utmost in every field of work. Any country which expects to overcome that force must sacrifice everything to achieve that...
...great danger was that the U. S. had learned too late. Relying on the weight, the tremendous, latent power of its production machine, the U. S. needed time to make that weight effective. It would still take months, and years, for the U. S. to exert the force that comes from mass plus momentum. Deliveries to Britain of aircraft, guns and powder were a long way from the top. Still further off was the day when the U. S. could provide a transfusion of the most necessary corpuscles in Britain's blood stream: ships...
...aims upon which the rival groups in the party had agreed were fourfold: to help keep the peace, to preserve New Deal social gains, to maintain academic freedom, and to exert pressure on Congressmen to adopt National Youth Administration scholarships...
...period. Dave Baldwin was credited with an assist on the play. Later in the same period Al Evarts scored on a long, screened shot for an unassisted tally. This burst of power, however, concluded the scoring for both sides. Although showing signs of improvement, the Freshmen were unable to exert a telling pressure; for with seven Frenchmen in the bastille at one time or another during the third period, Hodder's charges were unable to augment their winning margin...