Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost a greater humiliation than Singapore. No enemy had even dared such an exploit since 1690, when the French Admiral Tourville defeated the British and the Dutch off Beachy Head and then triumphantly swept along the English coast. The humiliation was not distant; it took place in the Channel itself, named for the homeland, in the Strait named Dover...
...admittedly more heretical than the Seaway's, but its urgency was greater too. Its cost was incalculable and unspecified. It embraced 25 States and Alaska. It took Harold Ickes 35 pages merely to outline it in a letter to Senator O'Mahoney. It was a proposal to exploit the unexploited mineral wealth...
...pair of reporters of the Philadelphia Record, hearing of the shocking exploit of two British Security policemen who toured a London suburb in Nazi uniforms unmolested (TIME, Feb. 2), decided to see whether it could happen here. Dressed as German U-boat commanders, William B. Mellor Jr. and Frank Toughill wandered about downtown Philadelphia, talked German in a crowded automat, peering suspiciously at defense plants, asked a traffic cop questions in broken English. Only interest they aroused was from a small boy on roller skates. Said he: "Oh, boy! Join the Navy and see the world...
...action was the extent of German resistance to it (Reds may have found a relatively undefended sector); the size of the Russian forces (which must hold the ground they have gained if the wedge is to be effective); and how much momentum the Reds had (since to exploit the wedge they must eventually surround and destroy German forces...
...single heroic event, like the flight of Lindbergh to Paris in 1927, cut through the dead inertia of the prewar months-and the hero of that exploit now stood as one of the most tragic figures of U.S. history. No great books, plays, inventions, discoveries, testified to any creative vitality surging through the nation. No poet came up with a war song thundering the modern equivalent of Julia Ward Howe's "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," that appeared seven months after Bull Run. In music, the Man of the Year...