Word: exploitatively
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Although Allied generalship did not create the vast advantages in manpower and in potential weapon power which won the war, it did exploit those advantages decisively, converting potential victory into actual victory...
...head (Cecil Kellaway) of the firm where Miss Colbert works and Mr. MacMurray used to, is 100% eager to exploit the romantic bonanza. While the hero is still believed to be dead, it is he who urges the heartbroken young woman to go on the air with a piece of made-up stiff-upper-lipping for bereft American womanhood ("You don't have to," he insists comfortingly); and it is he who urges her to repeat it, next day ("You don't have to," he again tells his employe) for the newsreels. When the hero returns alive, horribly...
...country was open, sluggish streams meandered through marshes. Stolid, patient Lieut. General Walter Krueger was expecting an attack. He got it. His opponent's armor knifed into the center of Krueger's positions. It looked bad for Krueger's army. But when the armor tried to exploit its advantage, Krueger capitalized on the water-broken terrain, threw in his air force and destroyed the armor. With air power and airborne infantry, he cut the foe's communications. Then he turned his cavalry loose: both hay-burners and gas-burners ripped into the enemy's rear...
These things are symptoms of indecision and weakness. So are Anglo-American differences over Italy and Greece and the recognition of one Polish Government by Britain and the U.S. and of another by Russia. The enemy is doing everything possible to exploit this indecision and weakness...
...Fire. A thousand yards along the canal, flame suddenly leaped from one bank to the other, which meant that flamethrowers were at work spearheading the assault for another battalion. Jerry promptly switched his shelling from us to the new attack. We took the opportunity to expand our bridgehead and exploit the ground ahead...