Word: battering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole world knew that it was to German advantage to strike, hard and quickly, for many reasons: to relieve pressure on backtracking Italy, to batter down the last resistance in the Balkans, to bring France and Spain solidly into the German orbit, to smash the centre of the British Empire-and its No. 1 fleet base-before U. S. help to Britain reaches decisive proportions. The incredibly optimistic British waited for the attack, fortified from beach to beach, and serene in the conviction that "old Hitler's" attempt at invasion would be surest proof of his desperation...
Next day the storm blew out as quickly as it had blown up, went whirling down the coast to batter California. There rain fell in whale-sized tubfuls: San Diego, which normally gets only three inches in the entire last half of the year, got more than that in a single day last week. At Salinas Airport, workmen anchored an iron hangar to four ten-ton ice trucks to keep it from blowing away. At a beach near San Francisco, waves slammed 100 feet beyond high water mark, knocked three houses off their underpinnings. Ten Coastguardsmen...
...tank rifle, bigger than an elephant gun. which the Germans copied from the Poles and with which every infantry platoon is now supposed to be equipped. Most impressive is the constant presence of artillery far up in the front lines. Wherever there are tanks, there too is artillery, to batter enemy tanks. Engineers are everywhere, too, building pontoon bridges, clearing debris, mining obstacles. The slow, energy-saving step of the infantry is impressive...
Philadelphia was a downtown triumph again. Fourteen weeks before, Wendell Willkie had arrived in a Pullman seat, with "headquarters under my hat," had walked the streets unnoticed. Now, the arrival of his 14-car special train was the signal for Philadelphia to blow its top, for thousands to batter at police lines just to get a look at him. At night, before 30,000 people in Shibe Park, he again attacked New Deal management of National Defense, charged bluntly...
...left-handed batter, Lupien while at college had the same success, twice leading the Eastern Intercollegiate League in batting to take the Charles H. Blair batting trophy two years in succession. His average in his Senior year...