Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least four divisions of Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army wedged warily into the Bavarian Palatinate. The Seventh's week of advance was more a careful pursuit than a driving offensive. The enemy fought small-scale delaying actions (the Americans took only 2,707 prisoners during the week) as they withdrew from vulnerable points in France to their Siegfried Line of forts and forests...
Sensitive Spots. The enemy's sensitivity to any threatening move was evident. Hurriedly the Germans pulled units from other sectors, rushed a full armored division into the Westwall approaches. There was no doubt of German anxiety over a full-scale offensive that might break through to outflank the Saar...
...happens in world history that at climactic moments a phenomenon familiar in everyday life repeats itself on a colossal scale-namely, the personality of a 'man of genius,' with its inhibitions, faults and weaknesses, separates itself from his creative achievements. Not always or forever does the genius completely fill the frame of his creation. Frequently it happens that the great work of a genius continues to develop, of its own vitality and according to its own laws, while the ego of its creator collapses and degenerates. In other words, the creation of the genius has become independent...
...replacement system is no improvisation. The ability of the U.S. to fight two wars on fronts some 13,000 miles apart-on a scale which no other nation in the world can match-is due in part to this plan, which General George Catlett Marshall laid down in the beginning...
...Another string of bombs started to whine down. The noise . . . starts high in pitch and slides down the scale. . . . And the longer it whines the closer it seems to get, until you are sure that when it does explode it will be at the back of your head...