Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Communications functioned better than ever before, although the Army is still critically short of radio equipment, will be until spring. Cooperation of air force with ground troops was more effective than ever before, although the strain of battle showed up many a minor bug in the new U.S. flying equipment. The Air Forces (including several squadrons of crack Navy and Marine flyers) went into the fight with a lot of new maneuver tricks. (Example: one side got into the other side's radio channels, passed out false orders that messed up many a mission...
Then the disease usually attacks the heart muscles, lining, coat, or valves, often deforming them permanently, cutting down the power of the heart to withstand the strain of daily life...
...through all the motions of piloting. Day after day physical training experts studied his every move, took notes on which muscles he used most often. Purpose of this Army project at Maxwell Field, Ala. was to design exercise which would "overtrain" the most used muscles and thereby reduce pilot strain...
...Most strain is on the extensor muscles of the leg, least on the flexors ; for example, the rudder pedal is kicked, not pulled. Cadets are trained to lie on their backs, kick their legs in bicycle movements...
...eyed Charles Boyer, although his performance could not be called expansive, plays his accustomed role with some comedy and without undue strain. Earnest Margaret Sullavan manages to seem nubile as well as noble. On the whole, Appointment, like Bill Nye's appraisal of Wagner's music, is "better than it sounds...