Word: sniped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been fought; the party which holds with Senator Robert Taft that this world can live half slave and half free does not know why this war is being fought. Today the American people are bagging bigger game than George Norris or Franklin Roosevelt. They wound their allies. They snipe at democracy. They are shooting themselves...
That Mr. Perry is working to answer the critics of what might be termed the "intellectual" school is obvious throughout his book. At one point he drags in part of an article by Bill Cunningham in which the Herald columnist takes a snipe at "those mighty minds" who "do the heavy thinking, while somebody else does the heavy fighting." To get the most out of a man, Professor Perry asserts, you must enlist his reason and his conscience as well as "his viscera and blistering hands." This means keeping the ultimate goal of a just peace in mind, as well...
There was definite improvement over last year. The men were hard; last year sometimes one-third would give up on a 15-mile trek. The men were wiser; there was little standing up like snipe for the sniper. The men were bettereducated; said one sergeant to another: "I ran into a most interesting situation today when we encountered an enemy force...
Congress dearly loves to harry Mr. Morgenthau with guerrilla tactics, to snipe at his rear with embarrassing questions, cut off his flanks with counterproposals. But this time General Morgenthau had not given Congress time to mobilize. Treasury and Congressional experts had worked out the campaign together. Mr. Morgenthau had smoothed the way for his Blitzkrieg by luncheons with big, ham-handed Chairman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton of the House Ways & Means committee (which starts the tax bill rolling) and urbane Chairman Walter F. George of the Senate Finance Committee. With their help, Strategist Morgenthau thought that he could make...
Correspondent Stowe's parting snipe was a mixture of hysteria and bad taste: "The Burma Road abuses definitely threaten to throw a much larger burden of combat throughout eastern Asia upon the Americans and the British." The Chinese remembered that for four years they had borne all the burden of combat in eastern Asia...