Word: unforeseen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unforeseen obstacle to" WAC recruiting was the kēpi-like, cheesebox dress uniform cap. After much private heartburning, the WACs finally junked it in favor of a jauntier, less severe overseas...
Protocol in No Man's Land. The most minuscule points of military protocol were scrupulously observed. Major Jack Monteith, a wiry, six-foot Scot, supervised the later detailed negotiations in no man's land when unforeseen points arose...
...week's end, with Twentieth Century stock up to 24½, Skouras could already count on a small paper profit, barring unforeseen legal complications, if he took up his option. As far as Twentieth Century was concerned, this was all to the good. Said one official: "The company wants to keep him for the next ten, 15 or 20 years. They want...
Through a Dark Glass. A true reserve, as Karl von Clausewitz said, is "a force ready for unforeseen events." By this classic definition, Germany literally has no reserves - so far as her enemies can find out. Every known part of the German forces is either engaged on present fronts or earmarked to meet invasion at foreseen points. In terms of these visible forces, Germany is like a man who has put aside just enough money to pay his next month's rent: he has no real surplus...
...pattern of last week's events in Italy, where the Fifth Army found almost no Germans at apparently unforeseen points near Rome, may be repeated at other places on German Europe's fringe...