Word: exploitatively
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...calm, roly-poly General Haislip had managed another impossibility for Patton; he had driven his armor down from Normandy, across to LeMans, up to Alengon -300 miles-in twelve days. Haislip's corps had been the first of Patton's daggers to strike deep. Now Haislip could exploit the retreat he had helped to create...
...Conferred at Albany with Running Mate John Bricker. To newsmen, who tried to exploit the pre-convention gap between the two governors' international philosophies, Dewey answered crisply: "We found ourselves in disagreement on nothing...
...miles from the Carpathians to the Gulf of Finland. The stretch had been excruciating for the Germans. It was possible that the Soviet high command had not originally intended to stretch it so fast, to keep so much of it in motion at one time, but-always quick to exploit an unexpected weakness-had been encouraged to do so by the self-acceleration of the German catastrophe. Maintaining the supply lines to feed such an offensive seemed, to the outside world, a greater problem than beating the Germans in battle. But it had been done...
...story centers around 9-year-old Stinky and his pet dancing caterpillar, Curley. Jerry Flynn, a washed-up producer, sees a gold mine in Curley and sets out to exploit him as the phenomenon of the century. Stinky, quito naturally, will not part with his pot, and Flynn spends three reels trying to make the worm a national figure without breaking the boy's heart. Newspaper headlines scream the daily intimacies of Curley's life. School children wear Curley sweaters. And everyone stops worrying about the war for a minute to sit back dreamily and think about the charming fairy...
...beforehand by ... the Book-of-the-Month Club."), and was the most popular Book-of-the-Month for 1943, joined the Club's editorial board.* This made his future books ineligible for selection, but Marquand declared he was glad "to be in a position to exploit American writers," and forgot about his past poking: "Don't blame me for what my characters say. ... I can't remember...