Word: lags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patch was still driving northward from the Riviera toward a junction with the northern armies of General Eisenhower. So badly disorganized was the opposition that much of the time it did not know where its own units were. To avoid helping the enemy, Allied commanders let their communiques lag days behind developments in the field...
...just wanted to hear him again and again. Ralph Lang and Jack Gordon had the same to say, only more so. That guy described by Bob Shepard to be "high soprano and rather soft" must have had something. Al Ogden from Jersey explained it with "merely a cultural lag stimulated by movements about the microphone...
What Nelson, Maverick & Co. were striving for was a gradual adjustment from war to peace with a minimum lag in employment for labor, and minimum chaos and financial loss to manufacturers...
...into the background the so-called "chosen-instrument" policy, Juan Trippe's Pan-American program (TIME, Nov. 8). Eventually, of course, Congress, not CAB, must make the final decision on "chosen instrument" v. free-for-all competition. Pogue's action also meant that the U.S. will not lag in the coming international air fight...
...unemployed unless it raises its economy to a higher productive level than 1940's. He sees little chance of raising U.S. economy to such a point. For, says he, the expected roaring postwar boom will not occur; spotty prosperity will make some industries hum and others lag, while unemployment increases...