Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...with the serene contempt in which all good war pilots are supposed to hold ground defenses, however strong, the first British bombers slanted down through a hole in the cloud layer one night and, crossing Berlin from northwest to south east, dropped high explosives and incendiaries amid an angry inferno of bursting shrapnel and "flaming onions." The raiders hit seven widely separated districts of Greater Berlin, including Gorlitzer Railroad Station in the southeastern industrial and freighting section. Even as civilians were dying that night in London, so died ten Berlin civilians, with 28 injured, by official German counts. On succeeding...
...Ground, the British tightened their defenses as the sky war raged on. They arrested scores of persons suspected of showing light signals to guide Nazi raiders.* They tested the Home Guard's vigilance by turning loose fake parachutists, secret agents disguised as clergymen, tourists, milkmen, postmen, women, bummers. One "businessman" was detected when he asked the way of a wary countrywoman, a "girl" by the masculine way he handled a cigaret...
...Japan was still feudal, backward, timid abroad and slack within. A revolution in that year returned the Emperor Meiji to great prestige and broke ground for the industrial revolution which suddenly made Japan a world economic peril if not power. The last of the Shoguns, Keiki, too international-minded to keep Japan bottled in tradition, resigned and abolished the office. Japan adopted Western institutions: parliaments, premiers, political parties, elections. In recent months Japan has experienced a wave of such intense nationalism and such intense national hardship that sentiment has grown for casting out Christianity...
Paving the way for just that, Prince Konoye last week got down to specific cases on his long-promised new structure (TIME, July 22). First the Premier condemned the Nazi single-party system on the ground that it was un-Japanese. He then laid down objectives in significant phrases: "concentration and unification of the nation's entire power ... a national movement ... a central organ...
...sipping Japanese "adviser." By squeeze and by theft the Japanese have drained the area of every commodity, so that prices have tripled. Greatest machine of exploitation has been the North China Development Company (capitalization: $105,000,000), which got control of everything from telegraph offices to coal mines. They ground Chinese cotton farmers so hard that many stopped growing cotton: production fell from 853,120,000 Ib. in 1937 to 173,290,000 two years later...