Word: looming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reich? Moscow said that the Germans were rushing up reserves and new equipment to stop the Russians. Berlin talked of "elastic German defenses leading to further withdrawals." Perhaps the Germans were withdrawing under duress. Perhaps the Russians were pursuing more than attacking but wanted to make their gains loom as large as possible. Perhaps the Germans' "further withdrawals" may eventually take them out of Russia. If so, these circumstances explained in part the speed of the Red Army's offensive...
...Britain cannot resume her oldtime trade position which originated in the 18th Century with the steam engine and the power loom. "India does not want Britain's cheap cotton goods, even if Lancashire cotton operatives are willing to accept very low wages; but it will offer them high wages if they are prepared to make and send out wireless sets instead...
...studying labor problems with an eye to the expanding industrial development which is visualized for his country, and in which he believes the cooperative movement will loom large is also enthusiastic about the educational and medical facilities which are being developed under the movement...
From the day Britain went to war, U.S. citizens and their press have freely criticized the British, their Government and their war effort. The British have seldom talked back. But last week, with U.S. foreign policy beginning to loom large in the politics of war and peace, Britons of all political complexions showed a growing concern with the meaning and direction of U.S. policies...
...Everybody said it takes two weeks to train a new loom tender to tie a weaver's knot. Dooley and Dietz did not believe it. They went to a New England mill loaded with war orders and hard-pressed to find workers. The manager sent for the best loom-tender in the plant. He showed the visitors, with lightning movements of his hands, how a good man does it. Gradually they slowed him down to a speed the eye could follow, made him analyze what each finger does. Hours later they knew exactly what happens when the fingers...