Word: simplest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plus m.p.h., learning how to pull out of 680-m.p.h. power dives that can hurtle the P47 to safety when its ammunition is exhausted. In early days, many a student pilot forgot that a Thunderbolt can dive a mile in six screeching seconds, needs thousands of feet for the simplest maneuvers...
...average firehouse or parlor player, checkers is one of the simplest of indoor sports. Yet since Pearl Harbor the game has waxed inexplicably in popularity. Fighting men have taken it up. Civilians have...
...cement ("Get us that machinery and we will erect a statue of you in concrete"). Said a Panamanian who heard one of the Vice President's speeches: "He speaks our language very well, and the unusual thing about him is that, unlike the average gringo who chooses the simplest words, Wallace uses ten-dollar words...
...Republicans had a sudden inspiration. The Democratic-controlled Ways & Means Committee had fumbled the tax job. Minority Leader Joe Martin called a conference of twelve Republican steering committee members. Their strategy: grab the tax bill when it reaches the House floor, substitute pay-as-you-go reduced to its simplest terms, in a modified version of the Ruml plan. Sense as well as strategy was on their side, for many a disgusted Democrat would not vote for the committee bill. The possibility was not remote that the House might overturn its no-longer-august tax-making committee...
...only does this greatly accelerate the forces of inflation but its effect in freeing manpower are dubious. For it disregards the simplest law of free competitive enterprise: namely, that employers will inevitably tend to adjust production and employment to a point where they maximize profits...