Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...details of two U.S. victories—the Battle of the Coral Sea, May 4 to 8, and the Battle of Midway, June 3 to 7 threw much light on the current balance of gain & loss in the Pacific. Tales of U.S. skill, heroism and success also provided the first clear look at naval warfare, 1942 style...
...merely won a great battle in the Pacific and averted a great disaster: The U.S. had proved its skill and might in a new form of warfare at sea. For, in the Battle of Midway, U.S. forces met and drove back the first full battle fleet, organized on the grand scale for modern war, which any nation...
...German tanks, still packed more firepower than the British, but this advantage was being cut down fast. The British had learned that they could match heavier firepower with tactical skill, smoke screening, ganging up-exactly as three British cruisers had harried the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee to her doom off Montevideo. Tank warfare in the desert resembles sea war in more ways than one: the taking of ground means nothing; the location and destruction of the hostile land fleets everything...
Last fortnight, using all his legislative skill, Senator McKellar tried to attach a dog collar for TVA to an appropriation bill: he wanted to abolish TVA's revolving fund and thus make it run to Congress -and McKellar-for every penny of its building funds. Debate in the Senate was hot and mean; McKellar got so enraged that he scrambled his facts, to the point of losing geographical track of the Tennessee River. Gentle old Senator George W. Norris, father of TVA, said flatly that McKellar's amendment would be "almost disastrous." Lilienthal said its effect would...
Using just the right tension, Vag overcame the wiry toughness of the French bread with an unsophisticated jerk, and settled back to enjoy the fruits of his conquest. He marvelled at the deft skill with which he had snared the bread from under the clutch of his neighbor. "Physical Ed's made me a new man," he gloated, proudly fondling the bulging biceps of his right arm. Gracefully ignoring the fork that clattered to the floor, Vag reached out for his cup of tea. The long last month wasn't so bad at that, he reflected as he sipped contentedly...