Word: armored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jimmy-prestige, front-row seats, wads of bills to bet at the races, comfortable bank accounts in his wife's name. He controlled judges and cops. His friends ranged from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, the "numbers" king. The vote was his bludgeon and his armor; when Prosecutor Tom Dewey came belling toward him up a trail of racket-busting evidence, Jimmy was unruffled...
...west, Allied armor and speeding infantry slashed in dazzling parabolas toward the last of the defenses beofe the Siegfried Line. The battle of France was decided. As it thrudered toward its end the battle of Germany was beginning...
Meanwhile the Red armies had been stalled on the Warsaw approaches by fierce assaults of German armor. The Polish rebels had vainly tried to prevent four Panzer divisions from getting through to the east for this fight. The Russians were forced to evacuate Ossow, a town seven miles from the Warsaw suburb of Praga-the first time they had lost a town since their summer offensive started. At week's end the Nazis were still able to mount 20 attacks...
...Germans finally retreated. To escape a trap they fell back in disordered ribbons toward Paris and the Seine. On the road back, the swift-striking armor, the crunching weight of Allied guns, the unequaled devastation from the air would have even greater play. The Germans in western France were ripe for annihilation...
Rommel had a concentration of guns, armor and Italians at El Hamma. Coningham turned loose nearly every medium and light bomber in North Africa on the still-cocky Nazi. For two and a half hours, sticks of bombs were continuously in the air. At the end of the breakthrough and the pursuit, Rommel had lost 300 tanks and vehicles, and his armored back was finally broken...