Word: exploitatively
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Several barrages around London appeared to have been merely to exploit fully the nuisance value of raiders...
...gain. Last week, with their mother country menaced, Greeks all over the world went in their own ways to her support. In the U. S., one of them was a millionaire oil operator of Louisiana and points west. Possessor of a 65-year exclusive franchise to find and exploit Greece's petroleum resources, he turned over to Premier General John Metaxas $1,000,000 worth of tools, trucks, pipeline, drill rigs, explosives and a 38-ton tank with which he and his men had been working in the Peloponnesos. His name: William Helis of New Orleans...
...lives regain our foreign markets? We can't go on exporting machines forever--the time will come when our customers have enough, and will want to start selling them back. England found this out before the First World War. Moreover, policing the world market which we want to exploit will be costly. We will fight war after war as we try to hold down the wriggling victim and suck the last drop of his blood...
Robert Graves is one of England's soldier-poets who, since the days of Raleigh and Ben Jonson, have given battle and exploit the lustre which means Empire. Not that Robert Graves likes modern war: his 1914-18 memoirs, Goodbye to All That (1929), were among the most disillusioned records any old soldier ever wrote. But Graves conceded that in an age of scarlet coats, flintlock muskets, brass cannon, war may have been fun, with more glory than gore...
Harvard has long been a reactionary on the subject of an Ivy League. Traditional Athletic Association policy has been to exploit our strong position and write our own football ticket for the less powerful colleges (weaker in finances and prestige). The H. A. A. cracked the whip and schools like Dartmouth had to get in line or face possible exclusion from our schedule...