Word: exploitatively
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...Exploit. Apparently convinced that the whole 4th Division was driving through, the Germans rushed in men and weapons, counterattacked with tanks. A German plane spotted Baum's column. All that day, in Gemünden, Baum and his men fought desperately. They freed 500 Russians from a stalag. Finally, with the remnants of their force, they assaulted Hammelburg...
...though not connected directly with any one resistance movement, also succored the men in the hills. He banded his clergy into the EOCHA (National Organization of Christian Solidarity) to help those interned by the occupying powers. So popular was this organization that on several occasions quisling Greeks tried to exploit it. Damaskinos fiercely resisted, kept politicians' hands off. Toward occupation's end, the frustrated Germans put Damaskinos under house arrest...
...yelling bloody murder about U.S. interests encroaching on British trade. Last week, over the by-line of able Correspondent Philip Jordan, the Mail front-paged a red-hot story: "An offer of one million pounds a year is reported to have been made by CBS for the right to exploit Luxembourg Radio. . . . I understand that Colonel William Paley, head of CBS, has recently taken time off from his duties as chief of the Psychological Warfare Radio Unit to negotiate the deal with the Luxembourg Government...
...married friends who would presumably know a shorter word for it that, according to Freud, "love" is the root of all evil. Physically appropriate as the frigid sister-in-law, Alexis Smith is less persuasive as an actress. On the other hand, Director Curtis Bernhardt and his colleagues exploit such action possibilities as the fierce, desolate murder scene with masterful detail, turn the story's emotions into something more cruel and vivid than a series of plot signposts...
Through the Paris censorship trickled news of a bloody insurrection in Algeria. Since May 8, fierce Kabyle tribesmen* had stabbed or beaten to death a hundred French officials and wealthy colons (landowners who exploit native farm labor) in the mountainous district of Little Kabylia. The Europeans had picked up their guns, banded together and held off the Kabyles as best they could until police and regular troops arrived...