Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offensive from Britain is speeding the day when the final effort will be certain of success. But the High Commands do not depend on air offensives. Neither the intensification of the air campaign nor the first sea-&-land steps toward Germany's inner fortress will mean that the basic conception has been altered or abandoned. In Ottawa, Commissioner MacDonald presumably had these facts in mind when he said...
...land establishment on the southwestern periphery. North of Rabaul there is only open sea (775 miles of it) between the periphery and the great naval base at Truk in the Carolines. From Rabaul the Allies also could strike behind the Japs' long Indies line, across the inner shipping lanes to Japan itself...
...Wolff, who for 18 years has searched for a means of reading people's inner personality from their appearance, reports his results in The Expression of Personality (Harper; $3.50). Eminent psychologists like Harvard's Gordon Allport, consider his book a milestone in "depth psychology" (study of the subconscious...
...noon, and the tropic sun beat down on placid Macassar, in the Celebes, deep in the heart of The Netherlands Indies. Macassar had served the Jap well as an inner base through which to funnel supplies to forward areas. Last week there were six medium-sized cargo vessels in Macassar Harbor and a cruiser for protection. Suddenly the sky was darkened by a flock of fat-bellied Liberators, and a rain of explosives-incendiaries to one-ton bombs-fell on town and harbor. The Wilhelmina and Juliana docks burst into flame. A 2,000-pounder cracked the cruiser squarely...
...midst of a period of revolutionary change that is likely to be as profound as any in the modern history of the human race. We shall not understand its inner nature unless we recognize it to be as significant in its essentials as that which saw the fall of the Roman Empire...