Word: exhaustible
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...Brains is primarily the business of the State Department. And the task of U.S. diplomacy is to exhaust every possible means of avoiding a shooting...
...once a dark, lonely search for enemies, is now helped by constant radio instructions from ground control rooms where new radio detectors trace in detail the movements of both R.A.F. and enemy planes on sky charts. Other new devices prevent R.A.F. planes from being betrayed in the dark by exhaust flames or red-hot, glowing exhaust pipes...
...three months they were ready. On the night set for their takeoff, the engine wouldn't start. Carburetor trouble. But next night came the music of exhaust explosions. With the Nazis so near they did not dare wait to warm up the engine. However, the take-off's only flaw was the lopping of some branches off a few trees. Over the Channel they climbed to 9,000 feet but the old crate's engine began to conk out, and they had to descend to about 1,300 feet...
...ready to go again before their tuckered-out crews are rested. Admiral Towers would like to have two and even three crews for each boat. Similarly, he wants to have complete reserve units of crews-&-planes for his carriers (a week of constant, hazardous carrier flying can pretty well exhaust pilots...
...When a member of the audience told Dr. Douglas Armour Thorn of Boston that in the U.S. "idle young people . . . exhaust nervous energies in the Boy Scouts and Y.M.C.A.," Dr. Thorn replied cryptically: "The American people have succumbed to a fatuous dependence on the cheerleader. . . . Our leaders lack the vision given to leaders in the totalitarian states which enables them to appreciate the vast magnitude of these [psychiatric] problems...