Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus to the U.S., already great in military and scientific prowess, had come man's most destructive weapon. To the U.S. Army Air Forces had been given the means for complete destruction of Japan. General "Tooey" Spaatz and his Pacific flyers could now blow the enemy into the sea, for one atomic bomb dropped from one plane can wreak the same destruction as 2,000 B-29s (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
...Japanese . . . are asking for invasion and they are going to get it."-Rear Admiral Arthur W. Radford. CJ Redeployment and retraining of U.S. troops will be speeded to permit the delivery of "a single crushing blow. . . . There's no use doing it piecemeal."-General Jacob L. Devers...
That breeze wafted a remarkable communication to the Japs. In leaflets dropped on Japan, rough, tough Major General Curtis E. LeMay listed eleven cities to be bombed by his B-29s. Then he hit six of the targets. Said LeMay, explaining this propaganda blow: "We feel that if we can convince enough of them that they have nothing to look forward to but total destruction, we may shorten the war. . . . We are telling them where we are going to hit and they can't do anything about...
...beats mighty Holy Cross as he moved into the fifth inning with a one run lead, but in that frame things blew apart. Bob Batten started things off with a long single to right field, moving to third on Bill Postman's best to left. Then came the big blow. With Don Swegan pulled out of position at short to cover second, Charlie Stephenson pushed a neat hit through the place vacated by the shortstop; Batten and Pohlman raced around to score before left fielder Allen could come up with the ball. Stephenson tried to stretch his him, and Wallace...
That was the end of Japanese sea power. This time the enemy knew, weeks before he struck, that Halsey was at sea again. The blow was delivered in the Halsey manner that they had learned to expect. It was daring, powerful, crushing. The Third Fleet's battleships could have run into serious trouble, standing off Japan for a shore bombardment. Halsey took the chance...