Word: object
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mortain was a critical spot (see above). There the Germans had thrown four armored divisions into desperate counterattack. The object: to pierce the narrow waist of the U.S. corridor from Normandy, thus split the Allied front. One U.S. division, new to combat when it landed in France, took the brunt of the Panzer blow, recoiled, then stood and slugged...
...danger and imminence of war in the winter of 1940. How little that was understood may be judged from the fact that two months before the fall of France, the House cut the number of replacement airplanes of the Army to 57, and the President did not publicly object...
From TIME (July 3): "Sound waves signal ahead to air molecules to get out of the way of a moving object; at supersonic speeds the object runs smack into groups of unwary molecules...
...Democratic Party. With his support Henry Wallace might again have won the Vice Presidential nomination. But the President chose to buy party unity instead. He gave the go-ahead to unexciting Harry S. Truman of Missouri, whom none of the three factions could warm to-nor strenuously object to, either. The Vice-Presidency had more than Throttlebottom proportions this time: each delegate kept uppermost in mind that his choice for Vice President might become President...
...Stakman, 59, is perhaps the world's No. 1 expert on cereal diseases. On a 40-acre laboratory plot at Minnesota, he cultivates almost every plant disease known to the Midwest. There are thousands upon thousands. Stake's object is to develop tough new varieties of wheat and other cereals that will resist these diseases. But no sooner does he defeat one disease than a brand-new one, almost invariably, breaks out. Thirty-five years of such battling has convinced Stake that, for all of science, the best man can ever hope to do against bugs and plant...