Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Push was on, bigger in numbers of U.S. soldiers than any in this war, bigger in shells and bombs and obliteration than that of any war. The September optimists, in & out of the Army, had been wrong. Only a military miracle could now bring V-E day by Christmas. U.S. civilians hoped for the miracle, did not expect...
Persian Rugs. As Lieut. General George S. Patton's infantry closed on Metz from the north, west and south, the outer string of forts put up only feeble resistance, sometimes none at all. Some had no weapons bigger than machine guns, and some seemed to be used chiefly for living quarters. The German commandant of Fort Verny had installed Persian rugs, Louis XV chairs, Oriental lacquered tables. He was captured behind the fort, wandering dazedly about in search...
Stalin might also propose a Russo-French pact patterned after the Russo-Czechoslovak agreement or the Russo-French (Stalin-Laval) mutual assistance treaty of 1935. General de Gaulle might well hold out for something bigger. He is known to favor a modern version of the Triple Entente (1907-1917) that bound Tsarist Russia with France and Britain. France might again become the link between Russia and Britain...
...years owlish, opinionated Eugene Lyons has edited the American Mercury (circ. 74,558). Lately Editor Lyons (who was the first U.S. foreign correspondent to interview Joseph Stalin and is an ex-admirer of Communist Russia) has pined for a bigger audience...
...this, except the almost blasphemous weather, was good and exciting news to the local citizenry. Eight years ago they were forced to buy nearly all their clothes from Eastern manufacturers, had none to sell in return. Now the local apparel industry is 475% bigger than it was then, employs 35,000 people and does a business of $265,000,000 a year, selling 85% of its products east of the Rockies...