Word: meshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WPBoss Donald Nelson finally announced the establishment of 24 industry committees, designed to make each industry's gears mesh with the war effort, picked 24 industry chiefs. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch and many other experts had urged this for nearly two years...
...enough should arrive in time, General Hutton might well cut across into Thailand after the Jap. But it was more easily said than done, even with a big force. Thailand and Burma have long been uppity neighbors. Their railroad and highway systems do not mesh, and the border country is mountainous, wild and miasmic in the low places. Yet Germany in Greece and Japan in Malaya have shown that an army with the will and equipment can traverse any kind of country, fighting as it goes. Up-to-snuff military men like General Hutton must have profited from their examples...
General Hershey told the committee that it will be necessary to "invade homes quite considerably." The new dragnet will have a smaller mesh. Commenting on past abuses of deferment privileges, General Hershey remarked dryly: "I must confess that we have found a great number of men who have assumed new and heavy responsibilities at home...
...idea of a woman's legs caught in a mesh has great appeal to men-behind bars, captive...
...Said a Manhattan psychologist, Dr. William Moulton Marston: "The most glamorous legs are bare, suntanned. But the most enticing stocking is one of mesh...