Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liberated Europe: the doctrine of "abstention" initiated two weeks ago by the U.S. refusal to guarantee Poland's boundaries. However well and democratically meant, however high the motives behind the policy, it was a shot in the arm for U.S. isolationism; it was also a bare-knuckle blow to Britain...
...other measure, "Georgie" Patton had a big week. Against increasing opposition, he still held the initiative, still got men across the river. And his artillery had delivered one mighty blow to the German war machine. Under fire of Patton's guns was almost one-tenth of Germany's iron-and steelmaking capacity. U.S. Long Toms knocked out towering blast furnaces, ripped out great sections of sprawling mills in the Saar's narrow industrial corridor...
...Sverdrup had once built an airfield on New Guinea in six days, five hours, 10 minutes. That was impossible on Leyte. But his ingenious engineers cut corners where they could. One airstrip was complete except for 120 feet, under water. They got a plane to race its props and blow off the water, dried the ground with a flamethrower, then hastily put down a hard surface...
Other British papers hinted that the Government might recall Sir Owen O'Malley, its Ambassador to the Polish Government in Exile. As Sir Owen is in London, this would be somewhat like calling him from across the street. But it would be a grave blow to the London Poles, a loud hint to Russia that Britain no longer considered the Polish Government in Exile a responsible Government. In liberated Poland, demonstrators demanded immediate recognition of the Polish Committee of National Liberation...
...chief weaknesses is instability. Reared in Japan's feudal atmosphere, savagely repressed all his life, he is apt to blow up in tight spots, make "banzai" suicide charges, commit harakiri. Victorious, he swells with arrogance and takes his repressions out on helpless prisoners...