Word: paves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been overwhelmed by his triple labors as Foreign Secretary, Government Leader in the House of Commons and member of the War Cabinet. He could relinquish the Foreign Office, still have a large place in the Churchill Government and in British politics. Conceivably, he might find more time to pave his way toward Mr. Churchill's place in Downing Street...
...Weapons. Public and press have begun to give the infantry more credit since air power failed to pave the way for a quick capture of Cassino (although the infantry has also repeatedly failed to take the town, either with or without air aid). But the public is not likely to give the infantry due credit so long as it pictures him merely as an oldfashioned, unimaginative, foot-slogging rifleman...
...Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the A.M.A., upped the estimate to at least ten per cent of the population. A board of Philadelphia doctors averred that the virus causing this year's mild flu was not a dangerous one; they hedged by adding that this virus might pave the way for more dangerous germs six weeks hence. The Naval Research Laboratory at the University of California (TIME, July 26) reported that not one of 26 preparations they tried could prevent a mouse from getting flu. Other notes...
...Japanese consider that the main function of the Navy, besides defending the home islands, is to pave and patrol safe sea roads to the Empire's outposts. In the realm of strategy the Japanese Navy is the Army's handmaiden. The Navy commits its ships for the most part in direct support of land operations and supply lines...
...alternatives? There are but two. . . . Either widespread, sporadic and interminable chaos and anarchy, or a precarious and temporary system of balance of power, with resultant armament expansion, and a policy of rank imperialism on the part of all the major powers, including the United States, which will pave the way ... for new and still more devastating wars...