Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Halsey's Third Fleet was rampaging through Far Eastern seas in the late summer of 1944, engaging in 21 combat actions, his carriers also had to undertake 26 logistic (i.e., supply and troop movement) operations. But as a result of logistics successfully carried out, when the Jap fleet was sighted on Oct. 23, Halsey's fast carrier task force, which had been away from its base for almost two months and had fought 16 actions in that time, was able to engage and smash a Jap fleet in the battle for Leyte Gulf...
Visiting foreigners, awed by the grandeur of Niagara Falls, spurred the movement on. Painters swarmed through the entire Hudson River Valley, straying over into the Catskills, the White Mountains and New England to set up their easels. For the next half-century, they turned out careful, literal landscapes that were generally large, declamatory, vaguely religious, blatantly sentimental. All these earnest pioneers who blazed the trail for Inness, Homer and Eakins of the '70s were loosely lumped together and called the "Hudson River School." The Chicago show spotlighted the lives and works of a few of the school...
Last week had shown, perhaps more forcibly than the earlier weeks of the Red offensive's swift movement, the seeming futility of the German position. The Russians had paused to regroup and restart. They were in vulnerable positions, but there had been no German counterattacks worthy of the name. The week had made it clear that Zhukov could call his shots on any front in his own good time...
Syria and its national liberation movement was much on the French mind last week. For under the ambitious leadership of shrewd President Shukri Bey Kuwatly, the Syrian parliament had voted funds and conscription for a Syrian national army. One fruit of General de Gaulle's visit to Moscow was believed to have been a Russian guarantee of France's colonial empire. Syria's military stirrings gave France a queasy feeling under her colonial belt; they might endanger the whole French position in the Middle East...
...Mystical Movement. Of late, Prabhavananda's teaching has attracted enough expatriate English literary men to create a minor but noteworthy literary movement. Novelist Aldous Huxley, ultra-sophisticate of the 1920s, studied privately with the swami. His latest novel, Time Must Have a Stop, bears the marks of his study. Erudite Philosopher Gerald Heard (Pain, Sex and Time; The Ascent of Humanity), son of an Anglican churchman and a professed agnostic since youth, was another private pupil. Like slick Manhattan Dramatist John van Druten, (Voice of the Turtle, I Remember Mama), both contribute to the society's magazine Vedanta...