Word: using
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Belgians had 24 divisions, the Allies 19, to the 100 the Germans had in use and reserve. Surrounding Liege, the Germans pressed relentlessly ahead to threaten Brussels and Antwerp. In the Coblenz area they reserved five mechanized divisions for a drive on Arlon and Longwy alone. The Belgians and the Allies under General Gamelin began to fall back on their Namur-Antwerp positions...
...Buck Rogers death ray to hot air. But the sudden, startling capture early last week of Eben Emael fortress, potent key of Bel gium's Liege defense system and synonym to Belgians for Security, made the world wonder. Germany officially announced that this exploit was accomplished by use of a new Angriffsmittel (attack method) operated by one Lieut. Witzig, an air pilot who landed his plane inside the fortress and in a few minutes, "despite heavy de fense measures," rendered its 1,000 occupants so defenseless that a mechanized Nazi column which soon arrived easily took the Belgians prisoner...
...call on my friends. . . ." Those words were a fatal blunder. By introducing a personal factor into so grave a debate Mr. Chamberlain gave his opponents a club which they wielded mercilessly from that moment on. Most effective use of it was made by hoary Lloyd George, who rapped out: "It is not a question of who is the Prime Minister's friend. It is a far bigger issue. The Prime Minister must remember that he has met this foe of ours in peace and in war and he always has been worsted. He appealed for sacrifice from the nation...
Professor Shapley emphasized the importance of the use of rays and radiation in many fields of science, such as the studying through invisible glass of the heretofore invisible storms of hydrogen, iron, and calcium on the too-visible surface of the sun. He told how scientists apply their research to practical work, using their rays in clinics, biological laboratories, agricultural experiment stations, and testing bureaus for textiles, guns, and even fake paintings...
...conclusion he defined the two most important "arcs of the horizon" in modern science: first, the public explanation of the bearing of our past and current discoveries on the current problems of life and society; and second, the encouragement of the use of at least semiscientific methods in the treatment of confused human problems in the hope of eventual emancipation from the slavery of slogans...