Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York in August seemed oppressively hot to him. In the old days there had been little open garden patches in mid-Manhattan, but now the skyscrapers shut out the harbor breeze. The old "governor" was 70; finally he went to the hospital, for a "rest." But autumn came and he did not go home. Suddenly he was gravely ill. He prayed in his conscious moments, and one night the Most Rev. J. Francis A. Mclntyre, auxiliary bishop of New York, administered the last sacrament. He rallied; but four days later, Death, as it must to all men, came to Alfred...
Part of the explanation was filthy weather - cold, autumn rain that fouled up artillery observation, left tanks struggling soggily with the mud, kept planes dripping idly on the ground, made cursing doughboys fight and sleep in the cold and wet. Even the mules, the only transport to front lines in the crags, were more than usually reluctant. But that was only part of the story. The other part was that Lieut. General Mark W. Clark's press headquarters had been guilty of wishful thinking...
...pushed the German remnants back to the upper Vistula, to a line in front of Warsaw and East Prussia before giving them a chance to regain their balance. Now this line, which the Germans bragged they had stabilized, was regarded by the Reds as the starting line for their autumn offensive in the Battle of Germany. They were bringing up new, massive equipment with which they intended...
There was the possibility, perhaps too optimistic, that Allied speed alone might have frustrated the German plans for a stand on the Siegfried Line itself. The Allies thought of that barrier in terms of a few weeks. The Germans hoped in terms of months-until autumn rains and winter could slow the slashing tanks...
They had a six-to-one superiority in the air. They had artillery to deal with the tanks which the enemy hurled recklessly at them-they knocked out 1,000 German tanks in a week. There was plenty of time. It was three months before the autumn rains would drench the Polish flatlands...