Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army's counteroffensives to relieve Stalingrad, was aggressive, 48-year-old Army General Gregory Zhukov, who also had much to do with planning the offensive on the central front (TIME, Dec. 14). London reported that Marshal Timoshenko was still in high favor, helping Stalin prepare a final blow against the Germans. But, in a unique communiqué, Moscow announced a long list of generals who had distinguished themselves this winter and the name of Timoshenko did not appear among them. This unprecedented list personalized the Red Army with new names, new faces (see cuts) like those...
With all this gone, Stalin had to face another full-weight blow from the Nazi war machine. For every trained soldier the Germans had lost in the previous year's battles, he had probably lost as many and more. For every bit of valuable experience which his soldiers and commanders had gained, the Germans had had the opportunity to gain an equal amount...
...resulting explosion, even of a 19-lb. German Teller mine which contains 11 Ib. of TNT, is no more than enough to blow the tread off a tank, or sometimes to blast a hole in its thin-skinned belly. But stalled tanks are vulnerable targets...
Booby traps are the most frequently used anti-personnel mines, and no more devilish contraption has been found since gunpowder was invented. Nazis and Japanese are equally adept at using booby traps to blow to shreds unsuspecting men who pick up letters, light fires in stoves, turn doorknobs in onetime enemy territory, or pick up dead soldiers to bury them...
...plant's superintendent and assistant chief inspector left on Dec. i. In Manhattan, Henry Donnelly Keresey denied that top company personnel had any knowledge that defective equipment had been sold to the Government. All that was certain was that U.S. business prestige and integrity had been dealt a blow such as it had not suffered since the McKesson & Robbins scandal or the defalcation of Richard Whitney...