Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since Singapore. No one vast loss, but a cumulative pattern of loss darkened the anti-Axis world; the fall of Bataan (see p. 18), disasters and failures in the Bay of Bengal and India (see p. 26), unabated retreat in Burma (see p. 26), the consequent peril to China. Heavier than any one of these tidings was the strain of waiting for the Nazis to loose their spring offensive...
...Condottieri class, and a destroyer screen. None of the British light cruisers could match the Trento or Trieste, much less the battleship. Admiral Vian invoked the tactics which dogged the Graf Spee to suicide in 1939. His light force laid down an intricate smokescreen, then peppered and confused the heavier enemy with darting attacks and withdrawals...
...argued compulsory saving pro & con. Eleanor Roosevelt trial-ballooned a scheme for deferred overtime pay, coupled with deferred corporation profits in excess of 3%. Among other proposals are plans to give a certain amount of compensating income-tax deductions to those who buy defense bonds, and simply to impose heavier social-security taxes. All have the same general object: to hold down wartime inflation-and to pump the spending power back when a post-war depression starts...
Girls, he revealed, will be recruited on the same basis as men, but will be given household tasks and some of the lighter farm work. Men, of course, will do the heavier jobs, such as haying, threshing and splitting wood...
...week's end the Home Office, the Board of Trade, the Food Ministry and Treasury were sufficiently alarmed to order more policemen to trail the blacketeers, to impose heavier jail sentences and to circularize magistrates with examples of inadequate penalties. In the House of Commons, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison was asked whether the Cabinet would consider a bill authorizing the cat (flogging) for serious offenses. Replied Mr. Morrison: "We hope to find some more effective methods . . . than one which, experience has suggested, might be more effective at provoking controversy than deterring crimes...