Word: sustainment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the London Times eulogized Prime Minister Winston Churchill as follows: "No man ever took office at a more difficult time. . . . No man, not even the younger Pitt, has ever had to sustain a greater series of military disasters. He has concealed nothing. He has endured everything with unflinching courage and resource. His reward is that he has become to our people and to our friends in other countries the symbol of energy and endurance and the guarantee of ultimate victory. . . ." The latest Gallup poll gave Winston Churchill the support of 88% of the British people...
...Department's instance, the Navy dispatched a second cruiser (the new, 10,000-ton Wichita) to Latin-American waters in the wake of the Quincy. Chief of Staff George C. Marshall gravely warned a House committee that the Regular Army and the National Guard should be prepared to sustain friendly regimes in Latin America (Brazil, Uruguay, Ecuador), possibly "within a month or two." Discussed was a plan to set up a great Latin-American trade corporation, to be financed by the U. S. and to act as a buffer between a German-Italian Europe and the Americas...
Several stories are dark with proletarian mysticism; several sustain their fervor with uncommon grace. Meridel Le Sueur has seen a few things around Kansas and Illinois that nobody else has put down; she puts them down hard...