Word: gantlet
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...pinches: "What people want is sympathetic attention." Jack gives his people attention by sympathetic personal chats ending with a pat on the back. There are no pats for absentees or latecomers. Jack & Heintz has no time clocks. Late workers are given a hell-raising reception, have to run the gantlet of their fellow workers' resounding wolf call. Result: workers are almost always on time, almost never absentees...
...Axis' problem was simple compared to the Allies' (see map). Axis ships from Italy ran the Royal Navy's gantlet by night and air transports few back & forth from Sicily over a shuttle that took little more than an hour's flying time. German and Italian troops have arrived since Dec. 1 at the estimated rate of 2,400 a day, with tiptop equipment and plenty...
...thin line of communication across Lake Ladoga the city almost certainly would have fallen. In the summer tugs, fishing boats and other vessels ran the gantlet of German bombers to bring food, munitions and raw materials to the city, to take wounded, women & children and war products out. One of the Soviet Union's biggest aluminum plants functioned continually during the siege. In the winter communications were maintained by road and rail across Lake Ladoga...
...THERE IS IN THE WHOLE WAR PROGRAM. THESE "PROFITEERS" COULD MAKE MORE MONEY IN DETROIT OR GARY OR CLEVELAND FROM THE BACKGROUND OF THEIR OWN HOMES WITH THE COMFORT AND PLEASURES OF PRIVATE LIFE THAN THEY WILL MAKE ON THE LONG, COLD VOYAGES TO THE ARCTIC OR RUNNING THE GANTLET OF "BOMB ALLEY." THE "ROUGH AND RAMBUNCTIOUS . . . 13-WEEK TRAINEES" SEEM TO ME, AND I HAVE HAD OVER 40 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN HANDLING AND JUDGING GROUPS OF MEN, TO BE EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH-GRADE REPRESENTATIVES OF YOUNG AMERICA. THEIR CIVILIAN STATUS DOES NOT PRECLUDE DISCIPLINE. THEY DO NOT THUMB THEIR NOSES...
...Franklin Roosevelt well knew that the new 78th Congress was less friendly than any of its predecessors, that any program he presented would have to run a gantlet of enemies on both sides of the aisle. And Franklin Roosevelt, who has his own ideas about the war, the peace to follow and the post-war U.S., was not willing to give up without a struggle. Nor would Franklin Roosevelt the politician, who has influenced the course of U.S. history more than most men before him, allow himself to lose the struggle through ineptness on this important occasion...