Word: impressively
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hodges had been an officer 20 years when he got the break that was to make him a three-star general in World War II. Most of the top Army commanders today are men who, at one time or another, have impressed George Marshall, who is a hard man to impress. In 1929 (when the Army was at one of its lowest points in men and money) George Marshall was a lieutenant colonel, the assistant commandant of the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga. Two majors impressed him there: plain, lanky Omar Bradley and ramrod-straight, studious Courtney Hodges...
When a hand is "bitten" (usually by an accidental blow against teeth, rarely by actual biting), treatment is to cut the wound wide open, remove all tissue injured by the poisonous teeth, bandage with splints or a cast so the hand cannot move. To impress laymen and doctors with the necessity for quick treatment, Dr. Hudson gave some facts: 1) of 14 hand bites treated at Massachusetts General Hospital, five of the seven treated late lost fingers or parts of them; 2) of 14 cases seen by Dr. Hudson himself, none of the eight treated early had amputations, three...
...Russia and the Satellites. "Armistice terms agreed upon with Finland and Rumania bear naturally the impress of Soviet will and here I must draw attention to the restraint which characterized the Soviet terms to these two countries. . . . Bulgarian armistice terms have not yet been signed. Soviet intervention in this theater was at once startling and effective. The sudden declaration of war by Russia was sufficient to induce Bulgaria to turn her caitiff arms against the German intruders...
...Jungle Book and Thief of Bagdad pictured the adventures of Sabu. At the U.S. Army Air Forces' new bomber bases in western Russia (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), G.I. Joe chummed up with G.I. Ivan. U.S. Businessman Eric Johnston continued to buzz around the Soviet Union, impress his hosts with his smoothly plain talk (see BUSINESS). At the level where Russians, Britons and Americans actually met, international relations were of the best...
...porcine athlete flexes his Aryan muscles to impress the vanquished, while a bony female collaborationist applauds hungrily...