Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs are going to get plenty," said Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, in a press interview last week. "The tempo of the air war will be stepped up very, very much. They will be hit by carrier as well as land-based aircraft. We will give them everything...
...President. But he would not be a bold, imaginative, daring leader, carrying the U.S. people through reforms and upheavals and crises and flights of idealism as Franklin Roosevelt did. A period of relaxed controls and consolidation seemed to be in the cards; the future would be entered in slower tempo...
...tempo of Russian attack east of Berlin hung at a sullen, persistent roar. After a week's bitter fighting the Germans claimed that: 1) they still held the essential battlements of Küstrin, which Marshal Joseph Stalin had declared captured; 2) the battered keystones of their Oder River defense line still stood...
Increasing tempo of the fighting on the war's many fronts is reflected in the six-fold expansion of facilities in the New England area for convalescence and rehabilitation of wounded war veterans. Thus Norman W. Fradd, Director of Physical Education, on leave of absence from Harvard, and now civilian consultant to the First Service Command, described the inauguration on February 5 of the new 6,000-bed reconditioning base hospital at Camp Edwards...
...present Mrs. Hopkins is credited by his friends with slowing down his tempo considerably, putting him on a sane regimen, and keeping him from overwork. It was not always so. In the days immediately after Pearl Harbor, when Hopkins was working 18 hours a day, one of his male friends once counseled: "Cut it out, Harry, you'll kill yourself." Harry, who is no man to overlook a little quiet drama, looked up over his shell-rimmed glasses and replied: "Do you know a better...