Word: rigidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Success in Bulk. That was the signal for a general crumbling of what had been for over a year a rigid, unbreakable line. On both Colonel General Golikov's front and that to the south under Nikolai Vatutin, who was last week promoted from Colonel General to Army General, the Reds exploited their advantage. Belgorod fell. So did Lozovaya, Voroshilovsk, Voroshilovgrad, Likhaya. The attackers rolled around Kharkov, which like Kursk had been one of the main fortresses on Germany's great wall of last winter. Russians crept early this week to within seven miles of Kharkov...
Success in Fluidity? All this suggested that the Germans on the southern front had been forced to go over (as Rommel did when he left El Alamein) from rigid to elastic defense. They had been forced to do so because of the Russian mastery of winter tactics and because of their own fear of encirclement...
Among the many reasons for the failure of Woodrow Wilson's dream of a vigorous League of Nations, three were outstanding: 1) he conducted most of the postwar debate himself, thus became irrevocably committed on its details; 2) he presented his blueprint to Congress as a rigid specification, take it or leave it-and Congress left it; 3) the American people were suspicious of the kind of planning that emerged from the bickering diplomats at Versailles...
...causes of absenteeism thus seem to call in question many a pet theory of liberal and labor leader. Big wages, big overtime, rigid price control to protect the workers' living standards, big unions-simply have not resulted in labor's buckling down to its job. What will do so? There is no easy answer. It is not going to be easy for labor to accept the fact that in one way or another real wages are going to be cut, yet that greater production must go on. Nor is it going to be easy to re-establish discipline...
...blow up immediately were raked with gunfire from other vessels. They saw some which had slipped their moorings make for the harbor entrance; at least one blew up there on the German mines.* In the glare of explosions and searchlights the Germans saw the French masters, at rigid attention on their bridges, saluting the Tricolor as they went down...