Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there's no point of planning the military prospectus of the war without Russia. We've got to work with them, understand their problems, and fit them into our scheme of the future as best we can. This is no mariage de convenance. Right now they're bearing the brunt of the war, and when the peace comes around they, quite justifiably, are going to be demanding their place...
Last year London staved off blitzes and worried. Last week it breathed easily and all too complacently while Russia bore the brunt of Hitler's attack. Last year London worried over Winston Churchill's habit of walking around during raids, listened to Parliament jump from one major war issue to another. Last week London watched Winston Churchill and 75,000 other people whisk off to Wembley for the year's biggest football match (England downed Scotland 2-to-0), winced as the House of Commons wrangled testily over whether or not R.A.F. officers should smoke pipes...
...each time through two weaknesses of his foes: 1) those who bore the brunt of his attack had been forced or persuaded to quit; 2) those who stood farther away had hoped someone else would win their war for them. Last week Hitler was still gambling on those weaknesses, and in three capitals men were tempted again to yield to them. Unless they sternly put down their weaknesses, Adolf Hitler had a good chance of winning again...
...other starting backs for Cornell will be Nehrer, who carries the brunt of the blocking load, and wingback Stofer, who does the punting and a large share of the team's aerial work...
Pictured on page 19 are types of carrier planes which would bear the brunt of naval air war if it comes before the ships now on order are available: Grumman fighters, designed to protect the fleet from enemy attack by destroying enemy planes; Douglas torpedo planes, for attack on enemy vessels; Curtiss scout bombers, whose dual role is to scout and to pepper the enemy ships with light bombs...