Word: expended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maintain the status quo and go on hoping for an armistice. This would leave 30% of U.S. Army combat strength tied up in defending a 145-mile front across Korea's middle, would allow the enemy to build up his reserves without having to expend them any faster than he sees fit, and capable of launching an attack at will...
Rosen admits that chemical fuels, burned in a multi-stage rocket, can theoretically place a payload in a permanent orbit. But he points out that the Von Braun plan would expend more than 6,000 tons of fuel for each 36-ton payload. Even if the shuttle rockets survived more than one trip (Rosen thinks it unlikely), the carrying charge on each ton of payload would be fantastic...
...whatever the reason, these AMA doctors have overstepped the rightful arena of pressure group action with this letter. Doctors enjoy a respected position in our communities, and their personal advice is respected. That the AMA wants its members to expend this respect over a false issue is shameful, but is a typical example of what the group will do to stagnate the nation's health program...
Thomas said that although he thinks the Socialists should expend their efforts in educating the public rather than running a national slate of candidates, they probably would nominate Darlington Hoopes for President. In regard to his not running, he declared, "I would be committing a positive indecency in running more than six times...
...particular, did the fighting that really won the war. At the climax, Tanker Cochran almost singlehanded drives a wedge through the Siegfried Line, which appears to be an area no deeper than the width of Sunset Boulevard. Amid such juvenile heroics, only the tanks look real, and they expend ammunition with an abandon which should horrify U.S. taxpayers and delight the shoot-'em-up enthusiasts for whom this low-caliber movie was tooled...