Word: warranting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MacArthur communiqués sometimes pose a problem in semantics. Isolated phrases can be easily defended: the overall effect, especially to the uncritical reader, has sometimes been rosier than the cold facts warrant. On landing at Morotai: "This would cut off and isolate the enemy garrison in the East Indies . . . sever the vital supplies to the Japanese mainland of oil and other war essentials...
...Chief Warrant Officer, U.S.M.C...
Under the deal, Pan Am expects to split its 1,993,261 shares of common stock, two shares for one. Then, before June, it plans to offer stockholders the right to buy one share of stock near the market price for each two shares held, give them a warrant (option) to buy another share any time before...
...evidence, the Secretaries found, did not warrant court-martialing any Army or Navy officer for what he did or failed to do preceding the Pearl Harbor attack. Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel would not get his day in court, which he has demanded. Major General Walter C. Short had been punished enough when he was removed, like Kimmel, from his command...
...thumbnail. It's damned annoying." Leatherneck's Career. Like many an other famed Marine (e.g., Generals "Lem" Shepherd and "Red Mike" Edson, Colonel "Chesty" Puller), Kentucky-born Jim Crowe started in the ranks. He was an enlisted man up to 1934, when he became a Marine gunner (warrant officer). After Pearl Harbor, he was commissioned a captain ("I was never a lousy second looey...