Word: expendability
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francis Cabot Lowell, Harvard 1793, half-brother of "Rebel" John. He went into trade: cotton-cloth manufacturing. Greenslet calls him "the first educated man ... to expend his whole energy in organizing and improving the industry." Lowell, Mass, is named...
...have had a similar effect on all of us, such as the long depression, which was a nice, upholstered euphemism for panic, our politics, the Roosevelt experiments in gentle revolution and, finally, the war, and the concurrent decline in sports and other grim frivolities on which we used to expend our passions. In other words, aren't we all and, so, why pick...
...Pattern. The Army, as it clawed through German defenses before Florence, one of Italy's greatest cities, did its part to expend the last German munitions and men south of the Po. The battle for Florence was expected to follow the pattern of Rome. Like the capital, the mellow, sun-washed city of art had been declared open by the Germans a month ago. Now, a few miles outside it, the Germans were fighting with fierce, expert craft. At week's end the German resistance stiffened. But the Germans' battle was a losing one. Within a matter...
...might be a fire barrage laid down by planes dropping Molotov-cocktail mixture (gasoline and pitch) and incendiaries that would burn off the whole top of a small island or incinerate its occupants. Naval gunfire might be heavier, but there were limitations on the amount of shells warships could expend on shore fortifications and still be ready to take on an enemy fleet...
...Germans were not fighting to hold the island. To all effects, they had lost it. They were fighting for time to prepare their defenses in northeastern Italy and the Balkans. This singleness of aim was a real military advantage. They did not have to expend their forces to save places for the sake of the places. They were free to conserve their strength at one point, to expend it at another, solely to win time...