Word: block
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another deferred a trip to England. The Ministers met for three successive days in a north room of the old East Block. From its windows they could look across the river to Quebec. Most of the Ministers' minds were on Quebec and its people...
Sudden Speed. Not even Rundstedt could do anything for the wretched remains of German garrisons in the Scheldt estuary. Their job was to hold out to the last, block the approaches to the vital port of Antwerp as long as they could...
Thousands of people in homes and in the streets felt the instant blast of furnace heat, blinked at the puzzling light. In a house a block from the tanks Mrs. Charles Flickinger plugged in her vacuum cleaner, and started back. At the same instant the walls glared red and the curtains caught fire. A surveyor stared at the towering flames, automatically sighted past a factory roof and a chimney and found the fire reached to 11½° above the horizon. He pulled out a slide rule and calculated its height-2,800 feet. Within minutes crowds of men, women...
Then the explosions began. Vast sheets of fire were flung for blocks, as though the tanks had become giant flamethrowers The moments after blasts were musical with the sound of tinkling glass. Block after block of houses smoked, caught fire, and burned wildly, the flames slanting in a searing wind. The sound of explosions spread as gas mains began to detonate. Manhole covers went spinning into the air like tiddlywinks and sections of paving disintegrated as though from dynamite blasts. Birds tumbled dead out of the air. As night fell, the flames lighted scenes of surrealistic desolation. The hospitals were...
...Germans stormed into blazing Warsaw after a 20-day siege, the Warsaw radio went off the air playing Polish funeral hymns. Last week Warsaw died again (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). After a 63-day siege, a ferocious fight from building to building and block to block, the Partisan forces of General Bor (Lieut. General Tadeusz Komorowski) surrendered to the Germans. This time there was no aerial music...