Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the dawn came still heavier fighting. On the east end of the battle line Jap infantrymen came out of their foxholes to attack the 7th and 77th Division fronts. For the first time on Okinawa they brought tanks into action. The Japs poured through 1,500 yards at one place before they were wiped out. Through the morning furious fighting raged until the assault subsided and the Americans struck back over the bodies of 3,000 Japs...
...There was much talk of justice. There was even a little action. China's amendments, designed to establish "principles of justice and international law," were accepted by the Big Three and written into the proposals. But the sentiment for a heavier dependence on justice had yet to take any positive, coherent form. ¶ | Power patterns, shaping up at the conference, foreshadowed the patterns of the world organization. A 14-nation executive committee included the Big Three, France and China, lesser members tied more or less to the U.S. (Mexico, Brazil, Chile), Russia (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia), and Britain (Australia, Canada...
...encourage feed-lot operators to resume full operations and feed their cattle to heavier weights, the Office of Price Administration will cancel its plan to lower ceiling prices for choice cattle...
Censorship Director Byron Price, whose hand on the blue pencil has usually been both light and wise, used a slightly heavier hand last week. He asked editors to go easy on discussing "expectations or probabilities" about the future of Russo-Japanese relations. Reason: "speculations . . . however erroneous they might prove to be, could possibly lead to a Japanese attack on Russia." The Washington Post, which like many a U.S. paper had already made the obvious deduction that Russia's denunciation of its Jap pact "bodes a break sooner or later," confessed to unwittingly violating censorship: "Our consternation over the gaffe...
Patton also knows his enemy's weapons and, among others in the field, has been defender of the highly maneuverable U.S. Sherman tank v. heavier German tanks. Last week the General apparently had a clinching last word in the tank argument. He could say: look where ours are, and look where theirs...