Word: breathers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time for a Breather? At Magdeburg, where it had bridged the Elbe, the "Hell on Wheels" Division was forced to backtrack for the first time in 30 months of fighting Germans. Three enemy divisions came charging out from Berlin and flailed at the bridgehead troops with massed artillery. The Yanks yielded the bridgehead with heavy casualties, some swimming back across the 450-ft. river. Fifteen miles to the southeast, however, at Barby, other Ninth Army units held a bridgehead five miles deep...
...Elbe River line was a natural place for Bradley's armies to take a breather, and they were plainly entitled to one. But there was no certainty they would take...
...Dewey chose to talk of expanding social security, of extending old age insurance to 20,000,000 Americans not now covered by the Social Security Act, of planning medical insurance for all. However earnest and sincere the speech may have seemed to radio listeners, it was not the fire-breather that the 90,000 had hoped to hear...
...Future of a Conscience. Last week, after a breather at a Normandy press camp in the rear, Ernie Pyle-who will be 44 on Aug. 3-was preparing to go up to the battle line again. He dreaded it more than ever. To a fellow correspondent he confided: "The thought of it gives me the willies. Instead of getting used to it, I become less used to it as the years go by. With me it seems to have had a cumulative effect. I am much more afraid of a plane overhead now than I was during the London blitz...
Whenever the warships took a breather, land-based Army and carrier-based Navy planes streaked in to drop bombs by the hundreds. There were plenty of 2,000-pounders; Tarawa had proved that Jap defenses could hold up under half-ton bombs...