Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those were the timesaving, small-scale battles that held the breakthrough from becoming a Blitzkrieg in the 1940 sense. Some of them might have a proud place in the annals of World War II-historians might say that here or there Rundstedt's drive had been fatally slowed...
...last week the "near future" appeared to be perceptibly nearer. In Washington War Secretary Henry L. Stimson-as if in answer to mounting Allied calls for action*-referred unequivocally to "a Russian winter offensive." Washington newsmen attributed to "Soviet spokesmen" a promise of a large-scale offensive aimed at the Polish plain, reported that its starting date had been confided to the U.S. and Britain (the Soviet Embassy denied any such promises...
...back on the bottom of the trench and began to shake. The whine started again and I thought, 'They are going to get me this time. . . .' I tried to sink my head into my shoulders, turtle fashion, and I closed my eyes. The whine crept down the scale and I shook, not like shivering from cold but slower and bigger. Some of my weight was on my arms and they shook in particular, but the source of the shaking was nowhere and all over; I remember feeling my knees bumping the ground...
...were hijacking U.S. trucks were found to be armed with smuggled U.S. weapons. Under Colonel Harry Cooper, of Baltimore, a former U.S. secret service operator, Army investigators have cleared up 87 major cases (all involving profits over $5,000) and 213 minor ones, have virtually stamped out big-scale smuggling by U.S. personnel...
...watching them carefully, even the untutored amateur can gauge his rhythm, making the long notes properly long and the short ones correctly short. Added helps are provided by cartoons (by New Yorker Cartoonist Charles Addams, now with the armed forces) which tellingly illustrate the significance of scale steps, sharps and flats (see cuts...