Word: exploitation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These things are symptoms of indecision and weakness. So are Anglo-American differences over Italy and Greece and the recognition of one Polish Government by Britain and the U.S. and of another by Russia. The enemy is doing everything possible to exploit this indecision and weakness...
...Fire. A thousand yards along the canal, flame suddenly leaped from one bank to the other, which meant that flamethrowers were at work spearheading the assault for another battalion. Jerry promptly switched his shelling from us to the new attack. We took the opportunity to expand our bridgehead and exploit the ground ahead...
...antiFascist, shelters with an unwilling bourgeois housewife (Helen Beverly). He also toys viciously, in his spare time, with her nubile daughter (Starlet Nancy Gates). His most useful dupe is an emotional miller (Paul Guilfoyle) who, easily led to believe that the Allies are eager to hoodwink and exploit his fellow townsmen, stirs up labor trouble and blows up a military jail. His most dangerous enemy is a repentant Nazi prisoner (Eric Feldary), whose murder he brings about and who, with his dying breath, denounces him to the occupation officers...
...Communists have been trying to exploit our wartime association with Russia in order to suppress in this country any objective discussion of Soviet foreign policies and internal conditions. They act on the assumption that America is already one of the Soviet republics, where there can be no discussion of Stalin and his regime except in terms of worshipful praise...
...inference. Tom Dewey is indeed carrying on his campaign like a "prosecutor," with just the technique that was his own as prosecuting attorney. One might wish a campaign for the Presidency to be conducted on a higher level. Two recent examples of deplorable sharp practice: 1) the attempt to exploit politically the natural desire of parents and wives to have our soldiers brought home as soon as possible ; 2) spreading confusion and arousing controversy by the nomination of General MacArthur for supreme command in the Pacific. . . . To date, confusion rather than illumination has resulted from this candidate's public...