Word: exploitatively
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Last week the Guard, possibly urged on by British or Russian agents provocateurs, broke loose. Still sobbing for breath after last year's man-&-heaven-made catastrophes, but with an infinite capacity for ever-new violence, Rumania plunged into another bloody exploit. The final push came from the gun of a mysterious Greek assassin named Dimitrius Sarando-whom Berlin described as carrying a Turkish passport, U. S. money, U. S. and British letters, and operating under British Secret Service orders. He killed a German General Staff officer, Major Döring...
Hyperion was the 35th British destroyer lost outright since the war began. The irony of her loss was that her biggest exploit was catching up, off the Virginia coast one cold day a little more than a year ago, with the German liner Columbus. She, too, was sunk...
...vehemence with which they denounced legalized adultery [i.e., divorce and remarriage]. But one was easy and the other was not. To upset legalized cheating, the church must tackle the Government in its very stronghold; while to cope with intellectual corruption she will have to affront all those who exploit it-the politician, the press, and the more influential part of her own congregations. Therefore, she will acquiesce in a definition of morality so one-sided that it has deformed the very meaning of the word to sexual offences. And yet, if every man living were to sleep in his neighbor...
...would have died. Enough died as it was under a ceaseless inferno of bombs from the R. A. F. and shells from the Royal Navy. For five days many units of the latter lay to offshore, grimly pouring broadside after broadside into the flaming town. In an extraordinarily daring exploit, one British "light vessel" (possibly a destroyer) penetrated Bardia's inner harbor, and in a hail of Italian machine-gun fire from shore, sank three Italian supply vessels. The Italians tried, with torpedo planes, to drive off the iron-clad fortresses which their shore batteries could...
...this was coldblooded, the U. S. at least could not point a finger of reproof, for Americans have long been proud of the exploit of George Washington, who on Christmas evening, 1776, crossed the Delaware and attacked the Hessians who had overeaten and overdrunk. Actually a general Christmas truce is impossible for practical reasons. The Germans, for example, could not be expected to keep their submarines inactive so long as British convoys plied the seas. And to keep their convoys off the seas on Christmas Day the British would have to give up shipping on the North Atlantic...