Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might swoop to cut any line of retreat anywhere. It could be used to speed the juncture of the Seventh Army in Provence with the forces before Paris. It might be dropped beyond Paris to slash the German escape route-or be set down in Germany beyond the Belfort Gap to speed an advance into Germany at the Swiss-border hinge of the Siegfried Line-or used to blaze the advance of the combined Allied Armies on north Germany along the coastal plane-the route by which Germany had invaded France twice in this century...
...wooden woman who ever sat on Edgar Bergen's lap-a new not-so-dummy named Effie Klinker. From advance hints last week it appeared that McCarthy would find the rebuttal of Effie Klinker by no means so easy as, for five years, he has that of the gap-toothed, apple-knocking Mortimer Snerd...
...much as in 1941-while state governments will chew up another $9 billion. The U.S. citizenry will still have about $145 billion to spend, and only $100 billion of goods and services to spend it on. What is left over may still worry some editorial writers as an "inflationary gap," but it did not seem to worry Budget Director Smith. He took a contented look at price-and-wage control, at war-bond sales, and the natural American disinclination to pay a lot for a little, and satisfied himself that in "the last few months . . . the American economy has reached...
...soon agreed on a further principle which put them ahead of the German tactics: though a tactical air force must be integrated with the ground forces, it must not be tied in piecemeal lots to ground units. Its function was massed, theater-wide blows, deep penetrations to fill the gap between tactical and strategic operations. Tactical planes were even used to cut off the enemy's Mediterranean Sea traffic...
Richard Wright, best-selling Negro novelist (Native Son) said to a New York Herald Tribune reporter that he was "ejected" from the Communist Party in 1937. Said he: "There was an irreconcilable gap. . . . I do not regard the Communists today as effective instruments for social change. . . . [They] have a terrible lot to learn about people. . . . What it amounts to is that they are narrow-minded, bigoted, intolerant and frightened of new ideas...