Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enveloping Moves. In the first phase of battle the British sent columns shoot ing into the desert to isolate the various Axis cantonments and fortresses. Each column had as its objective certain vital highways and desert tracks. Three of them had as their eventual rendezvous a key point on the biggest Axis highway, Sidi Rezegh. The fourth (mechanized New Zealanders) cut north behind Axis forts on the Egyptian border, isolating them from the rear; then split and hurried along the coast, isolating coastal strongholds like Bardia and Gambut. In that operation the Fleet assisted. With control of land highways, with...
...conferred had heard one another's opinions on this problem more times than they cared to remember. There was one inescapable fact: the U.S. was adamant in its embargo. There was another: Germany was urgent for action. The echo of her terrible armies thunder ing at the gates of Moscow beat louder & louder in Tokyo. It caused the blood of warriors to race. But Prince Konoye refused to assume responsibility for a break with the U.S. The Army had opposed Prince Konoye for months, the Navy had supported him. Last week the Navy suddenly turned, declared itself "itching...
...very move made to unite the country divided it. Labor and Nationalists, agreeing on essential war policies, fought bitterly on other issues. Labor thought Opposition members within the War Cabinet were using their influence to torpedo its hard-won privileges and experiments in socialization. Nationalists accused Labor of us ing the war to push socialization. This threatened to split the country wider at the general elections...
...business. One of the outstanding jobs of U.S. defense is Ordnance's building of a great powder, shot & shell industry (TIME, Oct. 20). But Ordnance was not ready with prepared designs of modern weapons for industry to manufacture. To meet World War II, it had no outstand ing tank models. It had developed no outstanding artillery piece. The one weapon peculiar to the U.S. Army that it developed was an infantry piece: the semiautomatic Garand rifle...
...Shreve installed the "incredible engines" in the "unbelievable hull," and the President steamed out of Wheel ing. At Marietta, the steamboat blew up. Patiently Shreve buried the eight casualties, repaired his boiler, continued down stream...