Word: swallower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obvious fact was that the German Panzer divisions, although they had sliced through the Russian lines in a dozen places, had divided but not crushed the Russian Army before Moscow. They bit off hunks, but the vast Russian hunks were too large to swallow without chewing. The chewing job had to be done by the German infantry that followed the Panzers...
Incitement to Sin? The U.S. taxpayer is willing to swallow a camel-size defense tax, but a gnat-size affront will still make him gag. Such a gnat was the rule requiring husbands & wives to file joint returns, in the proposed 1941 tax bill. The House Ways and Means Committee hoped thereby to raise $323,000,000 in extra revenue. But a wave of public resentment against compulsory joint returns has swept down on the House. To many a defender of women's rights, the rule looks like a devilish device to sell married women down the river into...
This was the doctrine which German scientists were asked to swallow. Nazi scientific papers even attacked the theory of evolution, as the Church had a generation earlier, by printing pictures of ugly ape men and demanding whether Aryans, let alone that super Aryan, Adolf Hitler, could have had such ancestors. Editors of Nazi scientific papers announced that there was no room for the paleontologists' rubble heaps and old bones in the New Order. Science writers, feeling themselves full of cataclysmic creativeness, flexed their muscles in the Teuton's chronic, frantic urge to achieve Supermanliness. Perhaps the most effective...
...situation, however, lay directly across the Sea of Japan. There lay Vladivostok, which since the Japanese annexation of Korea has become the "dagger pointed at the heart of Japan." There lay the Maritime Provinces of the U.S.S.R. and, inland, all of Siberia that a hungry Japan could swallow. The prospect was enough to make the Japanese militarists temporarily forget all about Southward Ho! Furthermore, if Germany takes western Russia, Japan may have to invade Siberia in self-defense...
Help or Hindrance? The Seaway is one of those vast, mountain-skipping ideas that most Americans instinctively like, and that seem to swallow the objections of interested parties like a century of U.S. history. Yet Americans are also logical, and in 1941 the logical question about such a project is: does it help or hinder defense? Whatever it does to rail traffic, the Seaway job must divert men and materials from the manufacture of planes, guns, ships...