Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...areas (also printed in Italian for the natives) : the Crusader, Tripoli Times, Syracuse News. In these and the Eighth's News he jumped from the military into the political field. He roasted the U.S. for not imprisoning more Fascists in Italy, criticized the unchecked Italian profiteering, the kid-glove treatment of King Vittorio Emanuele. Last October Charlton's News attacked Mihailovich's conduct in Yugoslavia. Again Parliament seethed, later came around to switching sympathies (and supplies) to Communist Mar shal Tito...
...Philippine Army; in 1941, after retirement from the U.S. Army, he was recalled to head American-Filipino forces in the Far East. He commanded the forces on Bataan until ordered to Australia. Lukewarm toward air power before War II, he changed his mind quick to work hand in glove with his air chief, Lieut. General George C. Kenney, one of the most brilliant developers of air warfare (TIME, Jan. 18, 1943). And some of his campaigns in the South Pacific, a series of victories won with small forces and low casualties, are already regarded as tactical masterpieces...
...face. He dispensed with the limousine and motorcycle escort his predecessors affected. Saltonstall is driven around in a two-door 1941 Chevrolet. The Governor rides up front, and Chauffeur Al Larrivee-not uniformed-is careful to keep a cache of chocolates and nuts for his boss in the glove compartment...
Russian soldiers drilled in short-center field. Outfielders stood ankle-deep in sand. The catcher's mitt was a gunner's asbestos glove (for handling, hot shells) with extra padding. It took four hours to make a baseball-from part of a rubber heel wound with string, covered with leather cut from gloves. Bats were whittled out of soft Russian pine...
Behind the velvet-glove technique of offering concessions, within the formula, was Franklin Roosevelt's iron hand-and the iron hand was the news...