Word: scopes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...still confined by geography and tactical limitations. It operates chiefly in the vast pocket of Central China south of the Yangtze, hedged in on the north and south by the two great Jap bases at Hankow and Canton. Its fighters and bombers provide an air umbrella of limited scope when the Jap in Central China and along the Salween front of western Yunnan stabs at the tough, resilient Chinese lines. But the Fourteenth has a consolation of sorts: its men know that they are contributing to a much greater show. Every ship sunk and every plane shot down by Chennault...
Nevertheless, within their scope the new tactics were a great improvement and a promise for the winter. Five planes of 550 at Wilhelmshaven was a lot better than 60 of some 400 at Schweinfurt...
...Moscow came an agreement of such scope as few men had dared hope for. True, its terms were largely an agreement to agree (see p. 18). To put them effectively in practice would require the world's best brains and all its good will. But the fog through which the four great United Nations groped had lifted. Now-still far away but visible-could be seen the horizons of a new and brighter world...
...changed the old Army game of shuffling people like playing cards-face down. Said he: "We took him out of civilian life when his future was brightest . . . when he returns, we want his outlook and his chances for success to be just as brilliant." In the approach and scope of the project, military men see more than a thoughtful scheme for fitting Air Forces men and jobs smoothly together. They see what may be a preview of demobilization. If the Redistribution Center can ease men into new military jobs they are glad to get, it may set the pattern...
After the war they will be voting-ten to twelve to 15 million votes of fighting men. These . . . voters will swing solidly behind an American program, national and international in scope and outlook. . . . This is really a job for the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and other fighting men's organizations. Politicians, the isolationists, the appeasers, the pacifists . . . had better ... go 'way back and sit down. . . . We listened to them after the last war and let them run things, and they failed us. We mean business this time and are not in a mood to stand...