Word: approaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facing a winter campaign which will be waged not by the R. A. F. nor by the Army nor by the Navy, but by the doctors on the home front." Writer Calder quoted the British Medical Journal: " 'We can foresee with the approach of winter a state of affairs in respect of contagious and infectious diseases more devastating than the Blitzkrieg...
Gardner compared the election to the selection of a skipper to run a ship when it is certain that the ship is running into a storm. "The men who command must have the loyalty of the whole group which constitutes society," Gardner declared, stating that he considered Willkie to approach far nearer this ideal than Roosevelt...
Gibraltar had notified London of the approach of six French warships. The War Cabinet, according to this version, met, and Winston Churchill decided to take care of the French vessels outside the Mediterranean. The order was sent to let the Frenchmen out, but if they turned south, an M Squadron (light craft) was to keep them above Casablanca. Instead, during dark and perhaps stormy hours, the M Squadron lost the ally-enemy, and the Frenchmen reached Dakar...
...Jungeblut and Sanders are still nowhere near ready to try murine virus on human beings. But they think they have discovered an entirely new approach to polio immunity-fighting one virus with another. It may be, they speculated, that murine virus, which is relatively harmless to monkeys, rapidly settles in their brain and spinal cord, "blockading" the deadly polio virus...
...story around Washington, President Arias stood in Panama City's National Stadium before 30,000 of his countrymen, South America's youngest President in the nation's first open-air Presidential inauguration. He promised "peace and friendship to all nations," Pan-American solidarity. Nearest approach to authoritarian discrimination was his suggestion that a democratic electorate should be composed of the educated...