Word: wrought
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joint miracle, wrought by many hands. The planning and overseeing of it was in large part a Washington job, by Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell's Army Service Forces and his chief planner, cool, efficient Major General Leroy Lutes. They were the wholesalers, getting the supplies from the producers, estimating how much could go to Europe (and how much to every other battlefield in the world), and delivering them on the far shore of the ocean in the quantities needed and at the time required...
...Roosevelt a Jew and "the century's most conspicuous noodlehead," said "he wants to start a war so as to reestablish Jewish power and deliver the world to Bolshevism, " cried that "at Munich no one has been vanquished except Moscow." In prewar France, concludes Pertinax, "the worst evil wrought by Laval and the rest of them was their allowing German and Italian agents to prostitute the French press...
Replacing crumbling masonry, workers will restore to their original condition the wrought-iron portals which for 54 years have guarded the Yard's main west entrance. Erected in 1890, the structure is a memorial to Samuel Johnston...
...which usually approaches Congress with the dread of a stumblebum fighter who knows he must take the count before he gets paid off, had surprisingly good luck last week. The House gave it $58,000,000 - $20,000,000 more than last year. This minor miracle was wrought after five members of the powerful and cautious Appropriations Committee made a sur prise visit to OWI's nine-story Overseas Division in Manhattan. The skeptical Congressmen went in to scoff, came out to praise. Glowed Indiana's Louis Ludlow: "I will venture to say that no other activity...
Distance and Supply. The U.S. fleet in its quick growth had wrought another effect. Distance was still an enemy, but no longer as insuperable as it had once seemed. The fleet had repair and refueling craft now in such numbers that carrier task forces and even amphibious forces could range farther than they ever did before. Newly seized harbors like the vast lagoon at Kwajalein can be used to some extent as advanced bases long before shore installations are built...