Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offensive risks for Hitler were great. If he gambled on one of them, it would be a certain sign of almost final desperation. It seemed more probable-as things looked last week in a changeable war-that Hitler would strike a limited blow here, a pulled punch there, that he would delay as much as possible as he pulled his forces back into the fortress of Europe and waited for the inevitable...
With first call for spring drill set to blow April 5, the Military Science Department yesterday announced the appointment of James H. Reynolds, Jr. '43 as Cadet Colonel of the Harvard Regiment...
...Kenney sent in his flyers for the final blow. Low-flying Havocs (A-20s) struck first. Fortresses returned with more 1,000-lb. bombs. Three] minutes later Mitchells roared down to machine-gun the battered, burning ships. Lightning fighters darted at a cloud of Zeros. A new wave of Fortresses came over, low. Flame cloaked a destroyer. A 5,000-ton merchantman burst open. Four others were hit. Low-flying fighters turned lifeboats towed by motor barges, and packed with Jap survivors, into bloody sieves. Loosed on the Japs was the same ferocity which they had often displayed. This time...
Despite his thoroughness, Schorr did not get through his farewell performance without a slip. The spear he carried fell apart in his hands several minutes before Melchior was to sever it with a blow of Siegfried's sword. But Friedrich Schorr overrode this mishap. Said he: "I am really very happy. I consider it a great blessing to be able to retire of my own accord...
Cried U.E.R.M.W. President Albert J. Fitzgerald: "This proposal is a blow against inflation . . . here is what one union is willing to do to carry out the President's seven-point economic program." But the hard truth that Albert Fitzgerald's union overlooked is that the U.S. is already teetering on the brink of all-out inflation: the national income is already higher than the national capacity to produce consumer goods on top of its vast war production. Against that background there are only two kinds of pay increase that are really justifiable, by any standards except those...