Word: framework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beat the Nazis to their knees, to organize the 132,000,000 self-respecting people of the U.S., to gear in the 412,000 corporations of the country, to do it within the framework of democracy, to see the end, to will the means, to overcome the shortages and deficiencies...
...time Jax turns a fledgling loose in a "yellow peril" (primary trainer), the Navy has fashioned him into the rough framework of a seagoing man. He says "Knock off the chatter" when he means shut up, "shove off" when he means leave, calls the floor "the deck," tells you to "bear a hand" instead of hurry up, describes things as "squared away" when they are in order. From 5 a.m. reveille to 9 p.m. taps, he takes orders and gets little thanks. He learns not to resent the peremptory nature of commands, comes to see that brusqueness and military efficiency...
...they superimpose upon this framework of discipline a gentle mysticism which officers almost nowhere else do. Chen Cheng's Sixth War Area second-in-command sometimes stands on a hill in the moonlight with visitors and recites the liquid verses of the early 8th-Century Poet Li Po. A general commanding one of the crucial fortifications of the Gorges paints delicate drawings of birds and flowers...
...book has the gooseflesh resonance of a well-made poem, full of dim, sentient suggestions of a religious fatality. Its whole treatment is somber, muted, ardent. As a confused, cryptic painting-a portrait of a personal absorption rather than a public communication -it is moving. Yet, within its arbitrary framework, it convincingly clarifies nothing about destiny...
During the past year the School has offered courses based largely upon material secured in cooperation with the Army War College on industrial, mobilization, priorities, and the economic problems of national defense, which will from the framework of the new plan and give men taking the course an understanding of the increasing relationship between the country's military effort and industrial activity...