Word: impedimenta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must be aware by this time, Darryl F. Zanuck and the rest of the 20th Century Fox bunch have sunk untold millions into the salaries, set, costumes, and the rest of the impedimenta involved in this latest production of theirs. To help secure such a huge investment, almost as large a sum of cash has been lavished upon a publicity campaign second in magnitude only to the big. "Due in the Sun" build-up. If you happen to be an admirer of W. Somerset Maugham you may think it was worth all this effort...
...carriers returned from their strike at Marcus, is now freely advertised as the rear headquarters of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz' command. Pearl Harbor is still growing; the land area surrounding it is still being covered with new hundreds of acres of warehouses, shops and all the other impedimenta of a rear base...
...smaller scale it appeared to be the same old story as Malaya-of allied troops that failed to adapt themselves adequately to jungle fighting. Some Japs carried hand grenades, had 2-in. mortars strapped to their legs, lugged flame throwers. And these impedimenta did not slow then down. Green men flowed through the green jungle...
This opinion, of competent soldiers on the spot, was based on a compound of good news. The steady flow of American ships carrying troops, planes and all the impedimenta of war continued, so broadly that this week several brands of American cigarets were being issued to troops. Dutch air units, which had reached Australia planeless, were now ready for action. The Philippine and Tokyo raids lifted morale, while the Allied raids on New Guinea and New Britain carried on a positive defense - keeping the Japanese in enough confusion so that they apparently could not mount an attack, at least...
...twenty-one years old. Dull months of R.A.F. training routine during the "phony"' war had left him impatient of routine precautions. For him, no such impedimenta as gauntlets and goggles. Barehanded, open-eyed, through 23 days of combat duty at the peak of the Battle for Britain he went against the Messerschmitts. He had downed his quota in dogfights, learned to "Beware of the Hun in the Sun," to go into a spin when bullets started appearing along his port wing. "There is an appalling tendency," he remarks, "to sit and watch this happen without taking any action...