Word: brunt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they that it was plausible to suspect that Adolf Hitler had planned it that way. For if U. S. attention could be focused on the Western Hemisphere, there was less chance of any useful aid being sent to the European democracies, which were at last to bear the full brunt of Axis attack...
When they arrived-Premier Hubert Pierlot, Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak, two others-they faced a King who was agitated and harassed, with tears in his eyes. Latest military reports, said the King, showed that the Belgian Army was bearing the brunt of the German attack. Behind it the British and French were already backing toward the Channel. Further resistance would not save Belgium. In his opinion, King Leopold said, the Belgian Army should withdraw from...
Much improved in its last engagements, the injury and probation-ridden Stahlmen should, however, prove a considerable obstacle for Coach Jack Barry's charges. Brightest light of the season is the pitching of Burgy Ayres, who, with Captain Tom Healey nursing a sore arm, has borne the main brunt of the mound work...
...dropping clusters of small bombs that burst into flames when they hit. Systematically the Russians went after every centre of communications: railways, telegraph and telephone centres, roadheads, bridges, factories. (They got a ski factory and the Finns were short of skis.) This meant that civilians had to bear the brunt of the bombings. Typical of the destruction wrought was the case of Sortavala, vital railway junction on the north shore of Laatokka. Correspondent James Aldridge left it, "majestic in the moonlight." one midnight. The next night he returned, "saw a bloody glow in the sky and realized the city...
Though the entire southern area suffered severely, Rhode Island appeared to have borne the brunt of the storm...