Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three weeks before, the Germans had ordered the 4,000 villagers out of town. Then the Germans proceeded to blow the place to bits. The destruction was savage, efficient. Only the piazza fountain, a gift from villagers who had emigrated to the U.S. seemed to have escaped...
...Blow That Failed. The Partisans had a hard week. Tito threw a unit of his fighters, scantily equipped with captured Nazi and Italian tanks and artillery, against Banja Luka-a rail terminus, communications center, headquarters of the Second Tank Army. After three days of fighting Tito reported that the Partisans had taken half the town, were moving through it block by block. Then the Germans rushed tanks and reinforcements from the northeast. Short of munitions, the Partisans had to pull...
Free, liberal Chile last week felt a bone-chilling wind blow down from the Andes. The Government announced that it had discovered a subversive plot involving "Latin American neighbors." Not much more was told. No names. No arrests as yet. But every Chilean thought of the arrogant "Colonels Clique" of Argentina and of its suspected desire to organize similar Fascist regimes in neighboring countries. Said Arturo Espinoza, Army commander in chief: "The Army is awake with its eyes wide open and will defend the Constitutional Government...
...indications, the main blow will fall in the west. But Franklin Roosevelt spoke of combined attacks "from other points of the compass" than east and south. That could mean anything from Norway to southern France. This week, as Ike Eisenhower said farewell to his Mediterranean command, he made a flat, unhedging prediction: "We will win the European...
...British Home Fleet. Then began a long, furious, desperate running fight, as the hostile ships turned and maneuvered, while big guns thundered and baleful orange flashes cut through the grey atmosphere. Darkness brought no respite; the killers closed in; some hours later the proud Scharnhorst took her death blow and went down...