Word: multifold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last hours before the deadline, officials were far from certain of their pre-enrollment figures and names. Last-minute dischargees, for example, threaten to swell the already overcrowded ranks and create more problems for a staff that has been increasingly harassed in recent weeks by the multifold difficulties of reconversion...
...fighting in a common cause. Secondly, the mixed regiment has been proposed as a purely voluntary group. Those men who have not yet grown out of their natural racial prejudices will not be forced to join. Any difficulties the Army may encounter in organizing such a unit will find multifold compensation in the increased morale of all the nation's races. The equitability of this scheme can best be summed up in the words of Professor Alonzo Myers of New York University, "a man who is good enough to fight for me is good enough to fight with...
...week's end, except for firing Libbey and bucking the Army on field agents' priorities, he had not yet acted. Washington watched closely, to see whether Nelson's new toughness was in the biceps or larynx. WPB's hour was late. The problems were multifold and urgent...
Harvard has defied all its traditions as a cloistered ivy tower in its multifold reactions to the war during the past two years...
...last, after a year and nine months under multifold disguises that fooled practically no one, the men who want war for this country are launching their open campaign for belligerency. The war sentiment, once a rank heresy but always a seething undercurrent in the Aid to Britain argument, changed in one fortnight from a whisper to a strident shout. The voices which have moved so slowly from "short of war" to "war if necessary" have now undergone the final inevitable metamorphosis into "now is the time" with lightning speed...