Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the decisive beating the fleet took from a desperate band of American last-ditchers at Midway, a month later. It was not mainly his fault that the Japanese Navy had been bloodily ejected from the Solomons, or that it was progressively driven back on its inner defenses by the overwhelming force of U.S. arms in the Pacific...
...Guinea, pounced on Biak, a large island only 300 miles from New Guinea's western tip. Once taken - a job at which the task force was bloodily busy this week - Biak would be a real strategic asset to the U.S. in its drive into Japan's inner defenses...
Devils of Neurosis. The second great attempt at human balance came from the teachings of Jesus, which Author Mumford explains with a little help from Sigmund Freud. To a Roman world ridden with war, poverty and the brutality of the arena, Jesus "sought to bring the inner and outer aspects of the personality into balance by throwing off compulsions, constraints, automatisms." "No one else had spoken of the moral life with fewer negations or with so many positive expressions of power and joy." To Author Mumford, Jesus' healings of the sick are no miracles but works of "psychotherapy...
Destined to leave their impress, rather than to receive one, they build up in the secrecy of their inner life the structure of their feelings, of their ideas, of their will...
MacArthur's sweep west along the New Guinea coast, spearheaded and backed by the greatest concentration of naval power he had ever had, had given the U.S. new airfields 500 miles closer to the enemy's inner positions. From the three big airdromes at Hollandia (on which U.S. engineers worked this week), U.S. long-range bombers can now reach the southern tip of the Philippines (although with minimum loads), can also bite heavily into the Jap chain from the onetime Dutch naval base at Amboina, up through the Pacific arc to Guam...