Word: armageddons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...considerable turmoil," and that Nazi communications were "in a very sticky state" from Allied air attacks. But he added a quiet warning: the Germans had evidently massed the heaviest weight of armor ever wielded in western Europe. There was no doubt about it: the battle ahead would be an Armageddon...
...will come of evil; a man whose stake is in the status quo, he instinctively makes out a case for appeasement. No figure of real power himself, Alex yet remains the spokesman for the official blunders, delays, defections that made Munich no terminus but merely the last stop before Armageddon...
...atmosphere of tensity pervades London. The Allied forces are gathering to crush the Axis in Europe, and the Axis knows it. Germany does not know the hour, the date, the place. But while she waits for Armageddon behind her "invulnerable" ground defenses, invasion is already coming through the sky-from Africa in the south, from Russia in the east, from Britain in the west...
...magnitude of the convoys and rubbed their eyes over the spy mission of tall Lieut. General Mark W. Clark, as they saw the first pictures of the American flag on African soil, they knew that at last, after a year of humiliation, they were active and aggressive participants at Armageddon. In the tank and plane factories, in the ammunition plants and the shipyards, there was good reason to work harder than ever...
Sober satisfaction is what most citizens felt with their Congress-which seemed to have been spiritually reborn. None were more pleased than most of the adventuresome 2,500,000 youngsters now eligible for Armageddon. Many (one estimate: 400,000) already were in the armed forces. Many more this week were storming recruiting centers to enlist, inspired more by knowing this is a young man's war than fearing the draft...