Word: grasps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chungking sorely needed straws of hope to grasp. With dismaying speed the Japanese were surging toward Kweiyang, all-important rail terminus and highway junction linking China's capital to the southwest. If Kweiyang fell, the delivery end of the Burma Road would be cut, the Japs would be only 235 air miles from Chungking itself...
...next four years, almost certainly, time would revise the Roosevelt Cabinet, in which four members are in their 70s. But generally the Administration team would probably stay intact. The triumphs which lay within the grasp of Term IV were those of maturity, experience, wisdom...
...Marshall Way. In early 1941, George Marshall picked Courtney Hodges as Chief of Infantry. The man who could not make West Point's grade became a major general. Hodges had proved to Marshall that his Army-trained mind was not stereotyped, that he was quick to grasp ideas, thorough in getting them into execution. As Infantry Chief, Hodges was concerned with training and new weapons. His knowledge of guns began to pay dividends. Hodges' insistence that an infantryman should have a weapon to stop a tank was an early influence in fostering the mortar-type bazooka. Other Hodges...
Meanwhile, the northern arm of the pincers thrust out three fingers to grasp Kweilin itself. To the Chinese its loss seemed inevitable. Far more disturbing now was a new threat to another of the Fourteenth's bases; the Japs seemed headed for Liuchow, 100 miles southwest of Kweilin...
...conference, on the word of Franklin Roosevelt, did not discuss the selection of one, overall Pacific commander. The Pacific theater is too vast, said the President, for one human being to grasp. Thus the routes, and the commanders, presumably remain as they...