Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Patton undressed and was about to get into bed when he noticed that his watch had stopped. He turned on his radio, spun the dial to BBC and an instant later heard a voice, un-British with emotion, say: "We regret to announce that the President of the United States has died." A precise man, the General waited exactly two minutes to get the time. Then he set his watch at 12:15, put on a bathrobe and slippers, and walked back to the house...
...mighty gadget for aircraft, good in peace as well as war, was taken out of military wraps last week. It is an automatic navigation instrument that helps a flyer to know where he is at any instant, even in bad weather. The machine, officially known as the Air Position Indicator, but called "The Brain" by its makers, greatly reduces the amount of calculation a navigator needs to make...
...without Spoils. To meet this problem, he offered a concrete solution: let the U.S. dispel her Allies' fear by making a treaty with them guaranteeing the use of force to keep Germany and Japan disarmed forever. Said he: "Surely we can agree that we do not want an instant's hesitation or doubt about our military cooperation in the peremptory use of force, if needed, to keep Germany and Japan demilitarized. Such a crisis would be the lengthened shadow of the present war. ... It should be handled as this present war is handled...
...There should be no more need to refer any such action back to Congress than that Congress should expect to pass upon battle plans today. The Commander in Chief should have instant power to act, and he should act. I know of no reason why a hard-and-fast treaty between the major Allies should not be signed today to achieve this dependable...
...Last, Airplanes. At week's end the 30th Infantry and 82nd Airborne delivered a massive blow at the German bulge northwest of Saint-Vith. The enemy reaction was instant and furious : the Yanks were rocked back by counterattacks with infantry and tanks. But U.S. troops took the blow, and shoved forward again. The weather cleared at last, and a huge swarm of Allied fighter bombers set out to smash the enemy columns on the roads. It was good hunting, though probably too late to inflict more than superficial wounds. Even when the Yanks cut the main highway between Houffalize...