Word: unkinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, the disclosure of the secret Yalta voting agreement, and the inter-Allied row over the Lublin Poles (see INTERNATIONAL)-had thrown official Washington into a slough of despond. In the State Department, there was open talk of postponing the San Francisco Conference. This mood would probably unkink itself, but San Francisco no longer seemed a foregone happy conclusion. The war was unmistakably being won. But what of the peace...
Service Forces, he soon became its prize troubleshooter. Example: when the Army's supply lines kinked at Cherbourg, Clay crossed the Atlantic to unkink them. In one day he doubled the supplies shipped to the front, quintupled them before he left. In the production "crisis" last December, the White House moved General Clay into Jimmy Byrnes's office, gave him vast, if vague, powers to make sure that the armed forces get what they want...
This mood would gradually unkink itself from such savagery; the U.S. Army & Navy could be depended on to concentrate their blows at military objectives. But the feelings of Americans boded ill for Japan...