Word: handful
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...tanks and armored vehicles the Army possessed were scattered among older services. It took Hitler's Panzer divisions to wake up the U. S. Army. The lone Seventh Brigade suddenly grew (on paper) into a full-fledged armored force. Tank-minded pioneers were given command, plus a free hand to concentrate practically all of the Army's mechanized equipment in two divisions...
Orders to the first Chief of the Armored Force, Major General Adna R. Chaffee, were to be ready for combat by last Oct. 15. Within the sorry limits of the equipment then at hand, he was. For his two divisions he needed 548 light (12½-ton) tanks, 220 medium (25-ton). He actually had about 500 light tanks, no medium...
Another desert revolt was forming in the eastern wing of the southern war theatre. Somewhere below Khartoum was wizened little Emperor Haile Selassie, sending word to tribesmen in the fastnesses of captive Ethiopia that the day of liberation, castration and feasting was at hand. The British had no major force to spare for a strong thrust at the 100,000 Italians cut off from home in Ethiopia, but at Gallabat, Kassala and down in Italian Somaliland they delivered jabs and jolts. In a swift raid they seized El Wak, across Kenya's east border, took 120 prisoners, seized...
...have everything - I hand her the bouquet...
Bred in the academic tradition, Whitney at first ventured only a gingerly toe into the unknown water of industrial research. When he found that he really had a free hand, he took on the G. E. experiment as a full-time job. Things began to hum. The basic experiments of William Coolidge on tungsten, of Irving Langmuir on gas-filled (instead of evacuated) bulbs led to modern electric lamps. The Coolidge and Langmuir experiments also produced high-power X-ray tubes, portable X-ray sets, high-capacity electronic tubes...