Word: functioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...total of perhaps 2,500 tons of destruction from 16 British bases. Its purpose was the slow, sure crippling of German industry for a war that might run on for years. Repeated bombings of the same place time after time, until repairs are discouraged and the place and its function abandoned, are the kind of bombings that stick. The British pattern for Germany was unvaried for more than four months. Concentrated in the coal-seamed Ruhr district between the Rhine and Ems Rivers was a high percentage of Germany's war industry-synthetic oil, steel, chemicals, munitions-and important...
Composed of Overseers and outsiders chosen for their interest in a particular field, the committee's function is to advise the various departments of the University. They exercise no actual control of policy, and the position is largely honorary...
...these purposes the first was either in example of current idealism or referred to a contemporary condition of laxness, and the second is now a minor duty of that body. Expressing undergraduate opinion to the governing boards of the University is now the Council's main function...
Insurrection, said Lenin, is an art. He did not add that the technique of insurrection is conspiracy. But Lenin taught his eager Bolsheviks that, besides every well-behaved, "legal" Communist Party, they must organize an "illegal," underground Communist Party. Its function, like the submerged three-quarters of an iceberg, would be to destroy in secret. Apt students of the Bolshevik art of conspiracy, as Hitler told Hermann Rauschning, were the Nazis. Soon Nazi Alfred Rosenberg modeled his foreign section of the Nazi Party after the foreign section of the Communist International. Soon Heinrich Himmler modeled his Gestapo after Russia...
...final chapter, Second March, Critic Brooks forecasts a second flowering of New England. He sees its seeds in the life and works of late great Poetess Amy Lowell, Conrad Aiken, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eugene O'Neill, and especially Robert Frost, whose function, thinks Critic Brooks, is "to mediate between New England and the mind of the rest of the nation." This chapter reads like an afterthought. Critic Brooks's task was finished before he wrote it. His task was to create an intellectual tradition that could feed the newly emerging U. S. cultural nationalism...