Word: lashings
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...Republican opposition in Press and Congress is often flipped an exciting lure at which to snap while big things are being done. Example: the tremendous rise the President got out of the Press and Congress when he took his secret trip around the U.S. in 1942 and returned to lash out at "Washington"; during the ensuing indignation, the Administration pursued its serious business unopposed...
...also madi to the Chinese. Japanese propaganda de clares that the Allies are not fulfilling their promises of aid, that U.S. forces live like kings while Chinese troops grovel like beggars. Whereas the Japanese economic tactic was once plunder, it is now construction and trade. The Japanese armies lash out, not to demolish the Chinese armies, but to scorch Free Chinese earth, as in the Lake District. There are also appeals to the future: whereas the Allies have promised to give up extraterritoriality after the war, Tojo's government announced that on March 30 Japan would give up concessions...
...skipper bodily out of the chartroom and into the galley. Around the cabin, like dice in a box, skittered 50-lb. chunks of lead ballast. A potbellied stove, torn from its moorings, crushed the ribs of Seaman James T. Watson. There were five other men below. They tried to lash things down and ladle the water out. The men on deck tried to clear the wreckage of the mizzenmast. The 3070 lurched wildly...
...Though the admirals can now dig up speeches to show that they realized the value of carrier-cruiser task forces long before Pearl Harbor, it was the lash of post-Pearl Harbor necessity that forced some of them to shove the startling World War II weapon, the carrier, into the No. 1 capital-ship slot. Many admirals were mentally aware of the new order in naval affairs, but their hearts were still on the bridges of their battleships. Pearl Harbor did not make those admirals love the airplane, but it forced them to marry...
Later, after 1935, the problem of training was tackled in relation to age and physical fitness, and to various amounts of daily exercise. For these tests, the Fatigue Lab doctors had a chance to study on their treadmill in 1937 a few crack runners like Glen Cunningham, Don Lash, Archie San Romani, Chuck Fenske, Gene Venske, and Sid Robinson. And measurements were obtained that set new records in human power...