Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winter the North Atlantic airway to Europe is no "milk run." Hurricane winds blow over desolate wastes of water. The bases are often closed in by sudden storms. Moisture-laden air can sheathe a plane in ice. With magnificent understatement, airmen used to say the route was "unreliable...
...hold it to shield Austria. It seemed too late and too risky to milk the south to reinforce the west. Least of all could the Germans weaken the line from the Baltic to the Carpathians, for there the Russians were cranking up what may be their heaviest blow...
...relatively small areas, probing for a weak spot. On a 15-mile sector-from behind Geilenkirchen to the Aachen-Dürenhills-the German sky throbbed to the thunder of more than 4,000 aircraft, the German earth shook under the bolts of 10,000 tons of bombs, the blows of 20 tons of shells a minute. How any German could stand up to battle after the opening blow was beyond the belief of those who watched...
Last week the Navy Department issued its considered summary of the three-part battle, and the pundits had their answer. Conclusions which even the most conservative could not escape: 1) the battle had indeed struck Japan's Navy a blow from which it would never recover (TIME, Nov. 6); 2) U.S. losses were relatively light;* 3) Halsey had taken a chance; 4) it had worked...
...really organized to bring intellects together in an informal atmosphere. She is proud of having invented such games as Treasure Hunt and Scavenger Hunt, because of their psychological importance. Not unmindful of science (she once devoted most of a column to the fact that she has never had to blow her nose), she says: "Let's break them down scientifically. In the Treasure Hunt . . . intellectual men were paired off with great beauties, glamor with talent. In the course of the nights escapades anything could happen...