Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until a month ago the attacks on Russia and China were direct. Then Germany began trying to stabilize its Russian front and Japan turned from China to attack the Philippines and Singapore. Object: to effect a vast pincer movement aimed at choking the only adequate supply lines to Russia and China, the Persian Gulf route and the Burma Road...
...Overwhelming in numbers, the Jap flailed at the U.S. positions with rifle, machine gun, tank and plane, careless of his losses. Bitterly, savagely and calculatingly, the tall men from the U.S. and the short men from the island fought back. It was a battle of churning movement: swift slashes of armored cars and men in trucks, ceaseless slamming of artillery, swiftly emplaced, swiftly moved with the tide of battle...
...reclining position. Keep a victim lying down. If his bones are broken, movement may cause them to cut nerves and blood vessels, tear through the skin. Moving a victim with a broken back may cause death. Even after a man has been saved from drowning and given artificial respiration, he should be kept lying down lest he strain his heart...
...disk-or lens-shaped chloroplasts of most plants are capable of a remarkable movement: when light is weak, they turn toward it their flat surface; when light is strong, they present only their edges. This tends to equalize their rate of photosynthesis...
...year 1945 will see a final merger of the Federal Council of Churches, the International Council of Religious Education, the Home Missions Council, the Foreign Missions Conference, the Council of Church Boards of Education, the National Council of Church Women, the United Stewardship Council and the Missionary Education Movement...