Word: forethought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possible a bare six months ago. Britain's tricky weather, its restricted airfield space, the short nights of summer and the foggy ones of winter-these and other limitations had once seemed formidable enough to prevent a single 1,000-plane raid. It will take less ingenuity, aggressive forethought and experimental courage to double and treble the 1,000 than it had taken to get off the first...
...they fought and worked with coolness and precision at their staff and supply work, they must have thought of the American women on Luzon. Many of them, perhaps all of them, were now in the areas held by the Jap. Army & Navy men could thank their Government's forethought in ordering service families out of the islands. All were gone, except Douglas MacArthur's wife and three-year-old son, when war struck...
...British did not have long-range fighters to accompany bombers on distant daylight raids into Germany. Nor did they let their African successes blind them to the dangers of invasion. "We must all be prepared," said Winston Churchill, "to meet gas attacks, parachute attacks and glider attacks with constancy, forethought and practiced skill...
...numbed and thrilled at Elwood. Before him last week, in the Memorial Park near his wife's home at Rushville, were 10,000 townsmen and countryfolk who simply wanted a look at a candidate whom many of them already knew. He could talk to them without forethought, manuscript, microphones; and he talked at his easy best...