Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longest gestation periods any new Congress had ever required. The press went after it hammer & tongs for its inaction while the world burned. But the new 78th poked cautiously along. Besides, there was nothing much to do in the way of legislating on a large scale. "Old Muley" Doughton had the tax bill before his House Ways & Means committee, and after a member had taken sides pro-or-con the Ruml Plan, he could drift on without mental travail-unless he was the serious kind of Congressman who faithfully attended all his committee meetings, answered his mail, ran errands...
...started on June 11, the very day that the outpost island Pantelleria went groggy and collapsed under the rain of bombs. It had gone on in a sonorous crescendo, rising to a peak in the final week when the big Axis air base at Gerbini caught 20 full-scale raids in one day, and targets were so much in demand that American Liberators politely timed their arrival overhead for the exact moment when British Wellingtons were completing their business...
...skeptics who point out that few, if any, deserts remain on the world's fighting maps, the Army has a clinching answer: for hardening troops physically, for steeling them emotionally for battle and for putting them through maneuvers on the grand scale, the D.T.C. has no equal. This is the Army's postgraduate course...
This initiative, this freedom of action was what the Japs had when they advanced into the Southwest Pacific. It is what the Pacific Allies must have and exploit, on a scale far greater than that of last week's preliminary, before they can advance to Tokyo...
...Conspicuously missing is any large-scale political perspective which would give weight to words like Freedom and Justice...