Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...however, he gave no sign of preparing such a move. His salient was contracting, but it was shrinking around a hard armored shell-in which he might be regrouping for another thrust at Liège, main Allied rear base for the Aachen-Cologne sector. The first heavy German blow in four days was an assault by three divisions on the Bastogne corridor...
...great Musashina factory on Tokyo's outskirts was hit three times before year's end. Said the 21st's commander, Brigadier General Haywood S. Hansell Jr., after the second assault: "We haven't destroyed the plant-not by a damn sight." After the third blow, he still was not satisfied. "Possum" Hansell's flyers had better luck against the two Mitsubishi plants at Nagoya. The Hatsudoki factory had 600,000 square feet (40% of its built-up area) destroyed or gutted by fire. At Kokuki, photographs showed heavy concentrations of bomb hits directly...
Then one day when Anita was 13, fate dealt her a blow that sent her reeling. A child on the street, using a street child's dialect and detail, told her the facts of life. Totally unprepared for such reality, she was plunged into a year of adolescent hell. Disillusioned with her parents and friends, she went to church twice a day, often knelt for hours at a stretch. At length she announced that she was going to become a Carmelite, an order of nuns which requires complete seclusion. Soon afterward, at 14, she had a nervous breakdown...
When the great Jap campaign got up full steam in October, Gleason's band was ready to tamp in charges, fuse them and blow. Waiting until the last possible moment before the enemy advance, Gleason finally started the destruction...
...Grips on Land. The purpose of the invasion was not to knock out Germany at one blow. If the mere establishment and holding of Allied beachheads should discourage the Nazis to the point of capitulation, well and good. There were extreme optimists (later developments were to prove how extreme they were) who hoped for that outcome. But in the realistic battle plan, the purpose of the gamble was to bring the forces of the western Allies to grips with Nazi Germany on her western land approaches. When that purpose was completely achieved, affable, incisive, confident "Ike" Eisenhower became...