Word: approach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountainous interior, the Dutch had planted explosives in the sides of every pass, every cut through which key highways and railways threaded. Successively, as the invader advanced, Java's arteries could thus be blocked to anything on wheels. Mined passes commanded every approach to the Bandung fortress, and at the worst Java's Army was prepared to withstand a siege there comparable to Douglas MacArthur's on Bataan. -Dutch, British and U.S. aircraft rose incessantly from interior airdromes, met the invader in the air and strafed him on the ground, returned, reloaded and refueled, took off again...
...took his losses, secured his landings on Bali and Timor. With Bali, he won a foothold at Java's very edge on the east, to match his Sumatra springboard on the west. With Timor, he won another eastern approach and control of an essential waypoint on the route by which sorely needed fighter planes were flown from Australia to Java. And now he was probably near enough to Surabaya to immobilize that last, vital naval base even before he sent his troops against...
...need sound plays today on the problems confronting us. But we will not get them if the playwrights continue to do as they have done. They must re-evaluate their approach, seeking to come at the basic problems through a level of universal meaning, not a meaning based on the level of day-to-day through and action...
Ominous is the word for Alexander Granach's performance as a Gestapo bloodhound. The squat, square-headed, muscle-bound sleuth ticks along with the sinister near silence of a clock. He never speaks; his approach is heralded by the patient squeak of his shoes. Actor Granach knew his role well. One of Germany's best actors, but a Jew, he escaped from his country a stride ahead of the real Gestapo...
...progressive leadership can do a great deal to destroy the evils which blind the Pegler type of thinker to the vast possibilities for good which exist in unionism. With the change from division to unity labor will have a chance to throw out the entrenched powers and to approach more nearly the ideal of democracy. Strong and self-governing, only then will it be able to utilize all its powers for the advance of democracy in this country...