Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obedience, credulity, imperturbability in the face of hardship. Japan's soldiers, peasants and factory workers expect to win the war; their trump is Yamato Damashii, the "unquenchable spiritual force" of the Japanese people which must match the earthier power of the U.S.'s bigger guns, faster planes, heavier ships. They know Japan has conquered a rich empire, believe that the peoples of East Asia are united against the Western powers. Few of them seriously doubt the extravagant claims of continued victories, because they have no access to other information...
Only a few have heavier charges. After planting the model mines, each group turns to on the other's field, ferrets out and digs up what it finds, in the dark as well as in daylight...
...politely declined to be drawn into the argument. It refused to designate any company as "biggest," emphasized that comparisons, either in weight or number, are unfair. Reason: a complicated Flying Fortress is more difficult to build than a heavier transport, counts no more, numerically, than a "flying jeep." No figures could take into consideration many an other factor, such as design changes, new models, experimentation. But of one thing WPB was proudly certain: the high-geared U.S. aircraft industry will build more than 100,000 planes this year, compared...
...that, given sufficient carriers, it can capture any Pacific island. It will meet grave disappointments, because every island held by Japan is an excellent carrier in itself. On Bougainville and Tarawa, both comparatively insignificant, the Americans learned how much they must pay for every capture. The cost will be heavier from...
Athletes from the Front. Russian athletes are not deferred, but soldiers get 10 to 20-day passes for specific competitions. The Government is emphatically pro-sport. (The Red Army discovered that its average draftee in 1939 was an inch taller and five pounds heavier than in 1932, and attributes some of the improvement to mass sport movements.) Ski championships at Sverdlovsk this winter will stress military patrol competition. January's sports carnival for youngsters has events in shooting and grenade throwing...