Word: skill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy sea fighters as well as his own countrymen by a daring and ingenuity that sank a claimed 235,941 tons of shipping. After his submarine torpedoed H.M.S. Royal Oak inside the heavily mined harbor at Scapa Flow in October 1939, the British Admiralty paid tribute to his "remarkable skill and daring...
...defeat the purpose of Nazi propaganda, Friedrich noted, the United States people must be made to understand the methods of totalitarian propaganda. When America acquires the skill of discriminating judgment, then it will be impregnated against totalitarian temptations...
...enter the service, according be Shaw, a candidate must been three different types of examinations. The first test covers his range of knowledge and information, his skill of reading rapidly and intelligently, interpreting, and his ability to organize and write effective letters and memorandums...
...this war is not about the politics of Europe; it's about the politics of the human race. . . . You are not being asked to make a donation to a deserving charity. . . . You are not being asked to fight for Britain with your factories and your skill just because you love the English. For all I know, you don't. You are really being asked to fight, as we are fighting in Australia, for the decent, suffering, ordinary people. . . . The cry going out for material is a tremendous challenge to the industrial genius of the United States...
...country at ages 21 to 35 are either considered physically unfit to enter training for military service or are fit for limited service only. ... It cannot be said that . . . since the World War . . . the health of young men has improved . . . [although] never before has medical knowledge and skill been at a higher level...