Word: impetuses
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Such is Chiang Kai-shek's customary impetus. He united China once, by conquering it. Starting in the late '203 with nothing but a fledgling military academyand an incandescent spirit, he gradually subdued the selfish and the local men, the provincial brigands, the warlords, the fractious cliques, the Communists. In cam paign and persuasion he forced or con verted the Chinese into a nation...
...example, the Blue turned down a bid for it from Sal Hepatica, which wanted it as a summer substitute for Eddie Cantor, which would merely have involved the Blue's giving the show up to NBC. But the Chamber Music Soci ty had a new entertainer, new impetus as radio's most deftly impertinent show...
...about one-half of a man's, her pulling strength two-thirds. But she is superior to man in dexterity and patience. Women are peculiarly susceptible to certain chemical poisons; they are also more vulnerable than men to sickness and accidents from overwork. Protective laws got their impetus from overwork in World War I. But it was War I which emancipated them. From 1914 to 1918 the proportion of women workers in war industries more than doubled, from 65 per 1,000 wage earners to 139. Once in, they remained; in the same industries there were still...
...Douglas MacArthur and his men could hold out long enough, they might still be saved. The Jap was likely to lose the impetus of his first drive as he hit the prepared defense positions, was going to feel in his formations, as well as in his stoic soul, the loss of thousands of fighting men. The U.S. Navy, which this week promised help to the Philippines (see p. 17) might still make the battle's result a question of whose supplies could hold out longer...
NAVY DEPARTMENT PROHIBITS COMPLETE DETAILS HOWEVER CAN SAY THIS: TWO PARACHUTES WERE USED ACCORDING TO DOCTRINE. ON TAKING OFF WITH THE FORWARD IMPETUS OF TRANSPORT PLANE [WHEN THE FOULING OCCURRED] EMERGENCY PARACHUTE BROKE LOOSE FROM . . . HARNESS AND STREAMED OUT THE EXTENT OF SHROUD LINE; SILK OF THE CHUTE REMAINED INTACT. I PULLED IN THIS CHUTE SEVERAL TIMES WITH THE INTENT OF USING IT; HOWEVER, BECAUSE OF BEING SUSPENDED ONLY BY ONE KNEE, I DID NOT OPEN IT. WITH AN ATTEMPTED USE THE OPENING SHOCK WOULD HAVE CATAPULTED ME OUT OF THE HARNESS. HAD TO KEEP MY KNEES LOCKED IN ORDER...