Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Abuse After Dark. Commander Smith had seen 500 neurotic marines at the Mare Island hospital, nearly all of them from Guadalcanal. "All of them in their composite story give a picture of physical and mental strain that combines the best of Edgar Allan Poe and Buck Rogers. One cannot help but believe that the enemy made a careful study of our psychology and our ways of thinking and living, and used this knowledge against us. . . . Most of us consider the night as a time for rest . . . the Japs centered their activities during this period. They were taught a few American...
...resolved only by discussion and counter-discussion in which the managing editor, one or more senior editors, the chief of research, and the writer and researcher who have done the actual spadework on the story are all involved. The only managerial technique that could stand such a strain is a technique that relies not on rigidity but on the utmost flexibility...
...insist that this year's production will be at least as high as 1942's, but the trade demurs: manpower is cruelly scarce, irreplaceable equipment is wearing out. Costs are up drastically and prices (except at the raw level) are fixed. None of this encourages producers to strain themselves...
...political implications of these moves are painfully obvious. Reticent about meeting Roosevelt in a fourth campaign, the G.O.P. is deliberately laying a smoke screen to prevent the country from choosing the most able leadership by such clear cut issues as past performance and future promise. Still applicable in the strain of war are Washington's words of 1788 that "I can see no propriety in precluding ourselves from the services of any man, who on some great emergency shall be deemed universally capable of serving the public...
...commander to commander of a whole army. His definition of a good general is not flashy: "He must have the ability to know and instruct his men and must let them see him and know him as much as possible. . . . In modern war with its terrifying destructiveness and terrible strain on the morale and guts of the nation and the individual, the value of personal leadership in the general is greater than ever before." He also says: "I haven't much use for the blood and hate training. Our men don't need that...