Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Batangas Bay in southwestern Luzon, General Patrick's old 158th Regimental Combat Team, now under the command of Brigadier General Hanford MacNider, smashed a Japanese attempt to bring troops in from one of the other islands. But in northern Luzon the 33rd Division, after taking a month to gain 13 miles through difficult mountain terrain, was still seven miles from Baguio. And in Mindanao, Jap artillery and electrically-controlled land mines slowed the advance beyond Zamboanga. The road ahead was steep...
...fact that the talks were still going on this week represented a considerable gain. For Andrei Vishinsky, the mild-mannered, tough-minded Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, had previously played a lone hand in Bucharest, ignoring the Allied Commission and dealing directly with young King Mihai. Perhaps Joseph Stalin needed time to bring his bureaucracy into line with the Yalta doctrine, just as Franklin Roosevelt had needed time to bring his abstentionist State Department into line with the new U.S. policy of responsibility in Europe...
Until last week it seemed that this might not be so. At the end of the tenth day Major General Graves B. Erskine's hell-for-leather 3rd Division recovered from its long stymie around Motoyama Airfield No. 2, finally broke through for a 1,000-yd. gain straight up the middle of Iwo Jima. Here it seemed that the Japs might crack wide open. But the Jap flanks held and they tightened their grip on the craggy ravines. Instead of falling apart, the Japs fought more fanatically than ever and postponed their downfall...
Alberto Tarchiani explained his mission in the U.S.: 1) to help the economic reconstruction of his country; 2) to gain full membership for Italy in the United Nations...
That Hody Lamarr is the most beautiful woman in the world is a debatable point; she certainly is not the actress Ingrid Bergman was in the same part. Charles Boyer tried to drive Ingrid mad in "Gaslight" to gain her wealth. Similarly accented Paul Lukas tries to pull the same stunt in "Experiment Perilous," but with no apparent motive. Almost as a trick ending, it develops that a page has been substituted in this carbon copy: Lukas is mentally unsound, which doesn't really change much...