Word: smarted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...differences between the ratios in different theaters show variations in the combat efficiency of the enemy as well as of U.S. air forces. Smart as the operations of General Chennault in China have been, and of General Kenney in New Guinea, their ratios might not have been so favorable had they been fighting the still tougher Luftwaffe in Western Europe...
Today the food is plain and most of the well-sprung limousines are up on blocks. Rouge and a touch of the eyebrow pencil help to keep the officers looking smart, but in their hearts they know that soon they will have to fight or run away. The Russians are over the Prut; the end of an era cannot...
...They freeze in storms of ice-cold rain and hail. Their feet burn and smart horribly from endless marching through mud. Their stomachs growl because food arrives irregularly and often must be dropped from airplanes. Even ammunition is often scarce when the supply trains cannot proceed because of enemy activity or bottomless mud on the roads...
G.O.P. Birthplace. In Oshkosh, where 400 persons left their midmorning work to listen, Willkie first warmed up. For the first time, too, his hearers warmed. He lashed at Tom Dewey, at those who think it "clever to be silent, that it is smart poli tics to manipulate the nomination." In Ripon, birthplace of the Republican party, he put the argument on a scholarly plane, in a speech acclaimed by Columnist Marquis Childs as "one of the vital docu ments in our political history. . . . Our grandchildren may be reading it in history books 50 years from...
Ernie Pyle, top G.I. war correspondent, called Sergeant Bill Mauldin the best cartoonist of the war. His drawings, thought Pyle, often went beyond comedy, were "terribly grim and real . . . about the men who are ... doing the dying." That was enough for smart George A. Carlin, boss of United Feature Syndicate. In a fortnight 22-year-old Sergeant Mauldin's unshaven, unsmiling infantryman "G.I. Joe" and his hard-faced pals will become syndicated newspaper characters. This week Carlin reported that 42 papers had signed...