Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crop of 156.000,000 bu. is about 60% of last year's; the 76,000,000-bu. corn crop is 22%. Other grains are hard hit, but because of considerable carry-overs Argentina will probably need no imports, although her exports will be drastically reduced. The most serious blow to the world is the loss of almost half of Argentina's linseed oil production...
With each victory the Red lines shortened. More & more troops turned away, painted "to Berlin" and "to Stettin" on their tanks and vehicles, and hurried to join Zhukov. These were the men Marshal Zhukov awaited, the men to strengthen his lines for the final blow through the Oder defenses to Berlin and beyond...
Only 48 hours later, the second blow of the same size was swung against Nagoya (pop. 1,500,000), 150 miles west of Tokyo. Two-thirds of the crews who had flown against Tokyo were out again. All but one returned...
...Germans all hope was gone of a blow from the Pomeranian pocket to disrupt the Russian rear. The pocket was collapsing under the hammer blows of Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's armies. The twelve-way rail junction of Stolp went down. The Russians ringed Danzig, hatchery of World War II and birthplace of Arthur Schopenhauer, No. 1 German pessimist of the last century (when the pessimism field was admittedly less crowded...
...Secretary of War Bob Patterson and Lieut. General Somervell. They want a tough, all-out war against Japan with a minimum of reconversion. Last week theirs were the voices WPB had to hear as it prepared for the fearsome job of refitting the U.S. production machine for the knockout blow against Japan. That blow would not be delivered in one swift assault; it might be many long months before it was struck. Meanwhile, the U.S. would go on living in a war economy that would be eased only a little after Germany ran up the white flag...