Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...point: all delegates must stand up to answer the roll call individually, to put their votes on the record. Henceforth it would be history how they had stood in the fight between Farley and Roosevelt. Now Jim Farley's men would face the final, complete test of loyalty...
...Governor over Republican Thomas E. Dewey, 419,000 of Lehman's 2,391,000 votes were cast by the A.L.P. Since that time the A.L.P. has claimed to hold the balance of power in New York politics. November's election will put its claim to a real test...
...with an entirely different engine: the air-cooled, 2,000-h.p. Republic P-47. Said Hap Arnold: "The P47 now is in production and ready for delivery to combat theaters. . . . It is believed able to outfly and outfight any other known airplane." But combat will be the only real test...
...Pacific, U.S. planes and pilots have more than held their own. On the European front, where the test is tougher because the opposition is tougher, U.S. fighter planes still have to prove themselves good enough...
...trying to get into the army often conceal bad eyesight by memorizing the letters on test charts (famed Flyer Quentin Roosevelt did so in World War I). Doctors must also be prepared for men who take opiates to stop diarrhea, barbiturates to reduce blood pressure, digitalis to correct an abnormal heart, etc. Concealment may succeed for years. An epileptic stayed in the regular army for years and became a technical sergeant, because his fits always came at night and his barrack-mates helped him conceal them. Eventually he had an attack during night field exercises, and army doctors retired...