Word: groping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time last week, State announced its big organizational shakeup. To students of administration, the plan looked excellent on paper. Duties of policymakers had been clearly staked out. There was no reason why top men, each one now busy with his new divisions and well-defined duties, should continue to grope and work at cross-purposes. There was to be a new emphasis on departmental administration. Operations would funnel through twelve new "line" officials. The Secretary would be aided in policymaking by two powerful steering committees (Policy & Postwar Programs). There was a well-staffed new Division of Public Information. An Assistant...
Nonetheless, it shall be done as officers in officers' garb. You shall go without sleep, yes, but as gentlemen. No more, either, shall other shipmates be awakened while you grope for galoshes (1 pr.), havy underwear (2 pr.), and other innumerable garments. From now on, come security watches, and only your wife shall be awakened. A slight reversal of the usual procedure of waking her when you come in. Life is like that in war-time...
...truck-borne optical shop, designed by A. Turner Wells of American Optical Co. The oversize gadget packs $20,000 worth of lenses, frames, grinders, etc., can repair the spectacles of an army of 300,000 within rifle shot of the front. Military myopics of World War I had to grope their way back to base hospitals for glasses-which often did not catch up with them in time for the next battle. War II soldiers with shattered specs are to have prescriptions filled on the battlefield, can then rush back unblinking to the fray...
...Army announced that shore lights, which have silhouetted many a ship for a submarine's kill, must be dimmed or blacked-out totally. The new Army order will hit amusement parks, boardwalk merchants, seasiders, but the real sufferers will be the real residents of coastal cities, who must grope in darkness for the duration...
...recently published "Jazz Record Book" will prove helpful to folk who are just beginning to grope their way along the paths and bypaths of jazz music and need a few signposts. But for the devotee who knows all the available records and what he likes as well, the chief interest of the book would seem to be merely the opportunity it offers for comparing his own appraisals with those of the authors. I'm not sure whether that is worth...