Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lives for Yards. The Japs will lose Iwo Jima to the men of Major General Harry Schmidt's V Amphibious Corps, and we will have airfields within 750 miles of Tokyo. One reason for this is sheer power, including naval and air supremacy, but the ultimate factor in the fall of Iwo Jima will be the character and courage of the U.S. Marine Corps. There comes a time when defenses will no longer yield before fire power, however heavy. That is the time when men on foot must pay for yardage with their lives. That is when the marines...
...Walter Tower, president of the American Iron and Steel Institute: stainless steel stockings for women. They are still only a laboratory curiosity, but major steel producers, taking the project seriously, have made stainless steel threads which they say can be woven into steel stockings as sheer as silk or nylon...
Gumbinnen was an incident in the blows of the hammer swung by Marshal Ivan Chernyakhovsky on Insterburg, north and east of Rokossovsky's sickle. Through the snows that covered the wooded Junker estates the Russians met furious resistance, ground it down by sheer weight. In Gumbinnen, every house had to be taken. There was a reason: seven of every ten German defenders were men born in East Prussia. There most of them died...
Your cover picture of Norway's great Bishop Berggrav (TIME, Dec. 25) was one of the most deeply moving and eloquent bits of artistry I've ever seen. The lighting, subtly transforming prison wire into the Star of wonder and light, is sheer genius...
...Comden & Adolph Green; music by Leonard Bernstein; produced by Oliver Smith & Paul Feigay) is a youthful high dive that hits the water with a terrific splash. Spoil-sports may find fault with its diving form and point out that it comes up looking wet behind the ears; but if sheer enjoyment is not an outmoded measuring stick, On the Town is one of the freshest, liveliest, most engaging musicals in many years. Its fund of humor, flashes of satire and scorn for formulas make it better adult entertainment than many, if not most, less youthful shows...