Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British and Canadian commanders balanced the civilians' lives against the loss of time in capturing Dunkirk and putting it to Allied use as a supply port. The civilians' lives weighed heavier in the scale...
Although they did not announce the new Greek campaign until last week, the British began their operation Sept. 24. Actually it was more an occupation than a full-scale invasion. First, troop carriers dropped parachutists in the northwest corner of the Peloponnesus. Unopposed, they set to work building an airfield, piling up supplies...
...martialing of fenders against prudence - and with some success. High as it was, the accident rate in August 1944 was less than half what it was in the confused December of 1941. Considering the wartime speedup, plus the added toughness of training, it was probably not notably out of scale with the peacetime accident rate for military flying training, which is never completely healthy even when every precaution can be taken...
From the few details released it appeared that the operation had begun eleven days earlier. U.S. newspapers shrilled "gigantic," "large-scale," the "first big penetration of the Balkans by the Western Allies." Then headquarters shut up. Adjectives began to sag. Correspondents began talking of a "mystery army...
...subject to the draft (as contrasted with the U.S., already calling up 1 8-year-olds). And its population increase supplies a new class of 200,000 to 250,000 spring-legged fanatical recruits each year -more than enough to cancel combat losses on the 1941-44 scale...