Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frightened Italy might be more of a liability than a help to Hitler. Turkey, Syria, Iraq-the whole Middle East-were no longer an open road for the German armies. The Nazis might be pulling back in the Caucasus, building up their stores in the Balkans for a sudden blow through Turkey-but the British also had strengthened their forces in the Middle East, and the Germans no longer had the lower blade of their pincers in Egypt. The Allied occupation of French North Africa left the Germans almost no chance to close the Mediterranean by seizing Gibraltar, as they...
From then on the Vagabond became a man of strong emotions. Losing the game that way was a tremendous blow; it wouldn't have been so bad if they'd outplayed us and won by two touchdowns. On the trolley back he was ready to bite any offensive Yaleman. He went to a friend's room and poured four scotches down his throat. Even that didn't help. He was unhappy, and he didn't recover all night. He couldn't help it--this game meant a lot to him. But to think of what should have been the best...
...Prelude. The first blow at Tunisia was struck by twin-engined bombers soaring over "Death Alley" from Malta. On the same day that Eisenhower announced the capitulation of Morocco and Algeria the bombers destroyed 19 planes and damaged 19 others on the el-Aouina airfield outside Tunis. The Nazis, for once having to worry about too little and too late, poured additional planes into the French Protectorate from bases in Sardinia and Sicily. German paratroops captured and held the airfield after French scattered garrisons under the leadership of the ubiquitous General Henri Giraud fired on the Nazis and Italians. Drawing...
From the bases already won, U.S. and British airmen can do much to relieve Malta. They can cover any final blow at Rommel's rear. They can launch the continuous bombings of Italy which Winston Churchill promised last week. They can pound the Nazis in southern France. They can keep tabs on the French fleet at Toulon. They can harass, if not prevent, any Axis move through Spain toward Gibraltar and the Mediterranean ports of Spain. With ground troops they can move upon Spanish Morocco if Franco wavers in his neutrality. By the Allies in North Africa, the Allies...
...When our losses are admitted, it is long after they occur, and, whether by design or mere repeated coincidence, such losses are almost always made public coincident with the announcement of some current success, or at least optimistic prediction from Washington, thus softening the blow. . . . Such officials just don't understand Americans. We can take...