Word: exploitatively
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...remnant. The Navy and the U.S. were proud. Summoned from the South Pacific to Washington, Butch O'Hare got the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Roosevelt for "one of the most daring, if not the most daring, single action in the history of combat aviation." Of his exploit, Butch only said: "There wasn't much to do but shoot...
...best newspapermen," read the President, "resent this sea of hint and rumor. . . . The worst and most irresponsible deliberately exploit it-as the Patterson and McCormick newspapers are constantly doing...
...they take cover?" A few minutes later he crawled over to a slit-trench phone, talked to a regimental commander. "Of course, your battalion commander knows more about the situation than I do," he said smoothly. "But maybe we ought to get in there fast and exploit this barrage." Back at the outpost, he commented: "We're going to attack in half an hour." But he did not wait. He was off to other forward units, riding with one long leg astride a fender of his jeep...
...Washington, officers in "PT corner" of the Bureau of Ships glowed over this latest exploit of "the expendables." They were unable to give the hero's name officially. Unofficially they had reason to believe he was Lieut. Commander Robert Kelly, one of the original members of Lieut. Commander John Duncan Bulkeley's squadron in the Philippines campaign...
...global government could scarcely begin to solve the big problems that lead to war-to tackle the clash of national interests concerned with the wealth of the earth, and the efforts men make to own or use or exploit or develop that wealth-with less powers in itself than are listed in these few extracts from the U.S. Constitution. A global government could not make effective such laws as it might pass, with fewer restrictions on the now sovereign nations...