Word: kilter
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...based on their estimate of the strength needed to carry out a carefully planned strategical program which must necessarily be secret. Cutting the strength even by one million men would throw the whole program out of kilter, would threaten military failure, might result in a military stalemate lasting a generation...
Frankly & Humbly. Just after midnight on Oct. 21 Captain Eddie, with seven Army officers and enlisted men, climbed into a Flying Fortress, took off on a special mission to the South Pacific. By next morning the compass had gone awry, the radio was out of kilter, they were lost. They crash-landed in the ocean, clambered into three rafts...
...grocery chain stores. At Chicago, last week, at the annual meeting of the National Association of Food Chains, goliath grocers like A. & P., Safeway and Kroger heard that the foundations of their greatness were being undermined-huge turnover shrinking, their small but carefully controlled unit profits thrown out of kilter by price ceilings...
...early April, soldiers began to come down with jaundice in such numbers that Army doctors and civilian experts on the Army's Epidemic Control Board began frantically searching the cause. Along with yellow skin went nausea, nervousness, lack of appetite, constipation. Sometimes a soldier would be out of kilter for six weeks. Highest-ranking sufferer: Lieut. General Joseph Stilwell, who came down with it after his famed foot march across Burma mountains...
...assault on the Middle East and Russia. But with the R.A.F. hitting harder & harder, it looked as if Göring would have to get off his heels and do some fancy toe dancing to prevent the British from wrecking Nazi plans, throwing Hitler's timetable out of kilter again...