Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tito says that the Germans, while not resorting to a large scale offensive, are exerting offensive pressure on a number of different points to force the Partisans to waste their supplies and ammunition and prevent them from concentrating at the moment of the Allied invasion of Europe...
Japanese tanks scooted along the dusty country roads like beetles. Behind them came cavalry columns, motorized troops, supply trains, artillery. The dust they raised made it plain that this was no usual spring raid. This time it was a full-scale offensive, and it seemed to fit snugly into the Tokyo pattern of global...
...supporter and confidante to whom Ubico undoubtedly looked for comfort was a remarkable woman named Julita Quiñones. Officially, she is at the head of a Government bureau in charge of meals and supplies for public schools. Actually, she wields power in scale with her bulk (Guatemalans swear that she is 6 ft. 7 in. tall...
Felt Necessities. Privately, the 27-year-old ex-soldier had other views about his experience. "We [soldiers]," he said, "have learned that whether a man accepts from Fortune her spade and will look downward and dig, or from Aspiration her axe and cord and will scale the ice, the one and only success which it is his to command is to bring to his work a mighty heart." But when Emerson talked to him passionately of the work of reconstruction that lay ahead, young Holmes felt no crusader's impulse. "Merely, he desired to use his brain, drive...
...Most soap-opera characters are about midway in the U.S. social scale, almost never include factory workers, miners, skilled or unskilled laborers...