Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motif of that pattern was on the point of being repeated again last week, the same motif repeated often before. It is a simple motif: strike a staggering blow, exploit it while the German army reels; then, as the enemy begins to recover, repeat the same thing at another point...
...past, Kesselring knew a blow was coming. Allied patrols had probed his line unceasingly for six weeks. But he did not know where the main weight would fall. As in the past, the Eighth Army began slowly (as far back as Aug. 26), grinding out small gains across the Metauro River south of Pesaro on the Adriatic...
With complete air domination, General Sir Harold Alexander shifted his greatest strength to the eastern end of the line, struck with such force that Kesselring realized this was the main blow. By then it was too late for him to do much about it. The vengeance-seeking Poles battled their way ten miles into Pesaro, at the mouth of the Foglia River. Tough, fanatical Nazis of the ist Parachute Division, who had shown at Cassino that they knew how to fight, showed at Pesaro that they had not forgotten...
...commentator read the tonnage figures, and concluded sagely that U.S. action against Davao "bears watching." Other Tokyo analysts foresaw huge operations against Formosa and the Bonins, as well as the Philippines, and a diversion from the Aleutians toward northern Japan. The U.S. Navy, patently getting set for its next blow, did nothing to cure the enemy's uncertainty...
...were in. The club led the League in batting, boasted the three top individual averages. One of the three, however, was brilliant Second Baseman Bobby Doerr, who played his last game on Labor Day before reporting for Army induction. A month before, Red Sox pitching had suffered a body blow when the Navy claimed 18-game winner Tex Hughson. Although $65,000 had been promptly peeled off Owner Tom Yawkey's bulging bank roll for two Pacific Coast League pitchers, Rex Cecil and Clem Dreisewerd (who beat the Yankees in his debut), the experts still figured that lack...