Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fourteenth day. . . . [I] climb up on the wing and see two men coming over the rise in single file. Then there appears a third, fourth and finally a fifth...
Illinois's tall, rangy Senator Scott W. Lucas, not more than a 75% New Dealer. The Democrats' only successful vote-getter in the farm belt, Scott Lucas stock would rise if the G.O.P. nominee is from the Midwest...
...Army set out to build up a "protective mobilization force" of 2,800,000. For command, there were about 150,000 officers-14,000 regulars, the rest a grab bag of civilian reserves and National Guardsmen, many over age. It was to give the drafted men a chance to rise from the ranks, rather than to fill great gaps, that War Secretary Stimson and General Marshall set up small Officer Candidate Schools...
...Rise in Demand. It was a stitch in time. No army is any better than its officers, and Pearl Harbor found the U.S. Army faced with a demand for scores of thousands of officers. To officer the first outfits sent overseas other units were stripped. Training suffered...
...That the Republican opposition in Press and Congress is often flipped an exciting lure at which to snap while big things are being done. Example: the tremendous rise the President got out of the Press and Congress when he took his secret trip around the U.S. in 1942 and returned to lash out at "Washington"; during the ensuing indignation, the Administration pursued its serious business unopposed...