Word: bloodiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stresses of girding for war finally took their toll. As the summer heat cooked the land, strained tempers reached boiling point. Race riots broke out in Beaumont, Tex.; shortly the bloodiest in years was raging in Detroit...
...Allies faced a new and probably the bloodiest stage of all in North Africa...
...disadvantage in transportation. Railways networked behind the Russian lines and the mighty Volga gave the Red army much better access to supplies. But the weight of men & materials was on BOCK'S side. The prize, a chance to slash across the Volga, was worthy of his bloodiest efforts. More important to Russia than the Mississippi is to the U.S.. the Volga on its broad back carries the steel, oil. ore. tanks, guns and food of a vast chain of industrial cities stretching from its headwaters, between Leningrad and Moscow, to the salty Caspian. Canals, first dreamed...
Basilisk. To combat rebellion in Europe, it seemed logical that Germany should choose its bloodiest man. Reinhard Heydrich is six feet tall, lean, trim, yellow-haired, 37. He is pale, thin-nosed, thin-lipped. His features might be those of a great brutalitarian or a great ascetic. He is no ascetic. Within the Gestapo he has a fancy nickname, "The Green Basilisk." Most Germans call him simply der Henker (the Hangman...
...casualties. In the especially grim months toward the end (March-June 1918). they lost 688,341 men. Therefore, in spite of the fact that advances in World War I were largely made with great waves of unprotected men, the German losses in Russia have probably been heavier than during bloodiest periods of World...