Word: focuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some respects the Legionnaires ran true to form. They listened in silence as able General Omar Bradley, Veterans Administrator, defended himself from the assaults made on him by their outgoing national commander, bellowing John Stelle. The most recent focus of Stelle's attacks: Bradley's approval of a $200-a-month ceiling and a two-year limitation to "on-the-job" training for veterans, already costing the Government some $36 million a month...
...powered (as befits a state whose philosophy is materialism in flux) by twin motors, and airborne on the wings of mighty, pulsing transport planes. Fanaticism, like the air, knows no frontiers, and Moscow's big, drab airport (once the Imperial Field of Mars) is now the visible focus of Communism's pretentions to world dominion...
Renaissance of Fascism. Since fascism is the "political expression of the growing crisis of capitalism," look for its timely rebirth, Professor Varga warns. "At the present time in the capitalist countries there is undoubtedly taking place a definite rebirth of political reaction and fascism." Chief focus of the "renaissance of fascism": the U.S. and Britain. Reactionary forces in these countries are stepping up "an intensified campaign against the Soviet Union, striving to isolate her and organize an anti-Soviet bloc...
Center of Impact. Last week the focus of fighting was along the east-west Lunghai Railroad. There Communists had surged south to capture Kaifeng, and 90 miles of track. Nationalist armies counterattacked, and pushed the Communists off the railroad east of Kaifeng...
...only enemy he or the crew of the ship ever saw was the captain. Though they didn't know it, they were lucky in a way to have him. He gave them a focus for their resentment. The captain's chief competition came, for a while, from a young ensign fresh from midshipman's school. This boy, the "boot ensign" who took "indoctrination" seriously, was a luckless type in the Naval Reserve. Author Heggen writes of him sympathetically...