Word: sweatingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boss of Saipan's newly announced 21st Bomber Command, 41-year-old Brigadier General Haywood Shephard ("Possum") Hansell Jr., had to sweat out the mission on the ground. He was not alone; ground crews had all preparations made for the homecoming and were out strolling uneasily around the runways hours before the big silvery planes were due back. But the returning airmen brought less blood-and-thunder narrative than an hour's mission in Europe might produce...
...other great fact emerged: the new political influence of labor. This time organized labor really worked in U.S. politics, with money, brains and sweat, for F.D.R...
America is not a land of ease. We have not paused from action to beget Heroic simile and song and frieze; We have no empire of the mind as yet, Nor have we shed our light within the grave; But, as the sons of enterprise and sweat, Honor the quick, the strong, the free, the brave - The mind whose thoughts are cradled in the hand - The fierce emancipators of the slave Exacting destiny of virgin land. We are the builders of dynamic things, Successors to the spires of Samarkand - Boilers and bars, propellers, wheels and wings...
...Army (marines still wear them). Nowadays soldiers wear a two-piece jungle uniform made of green herringbone twill. Because medics insist, it is thick enough to keep out mosquitoes and leeches; because chemical-warfare officers insist, it is gasproofed. Result: a hot, heavy uniform which makes men sweat like stokers, fails to dry out overnight, often fails to give its alleged protection because men simply cannot abide being smothered while fighting for their lives...
Weary and unkempt, 46-year-old Chesty watched from under his awning as his men dug the Japs out of their limestone caves. "How do we get them out?" he said somberly. "By blood, sweat, and hand grenades...