Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their reports corroborated Todorovich, they ran counter to some powerful testimony. Winston Churchill had said in February that Tito had 250 thousand men, was pinning down 14 German divisions, would continue to receive the bulk of Allied aid because he was doing the bulk of the fighting. Highest current British estimate of Mihailovich's strength: 15,000 and dwindling...
Civil War? Most of the story of the Polish underground filters through the London Polish Government which claims but has yet to prove that it controls the bulk of the resistance forces. Certainly opposed to the London Government is Poland's young Partisan underground, led by Polish Communists. The Partisans are probably dominant east of the Curzon Line, in territory claimed by the Russians and among Poland's old White Russian and Ukrainian minorities...
Ever since Munich, U.S. radio has steadily expanded its news coverage. The networks still count on the press news services for the bulk of their news. Last week, however, a new tendency was visible...
...such an invasion force is the sole remaining chance for Germany to avoid losing the war. If the Allies attacked prematurely, at a time when Nazi defensive strength was at its peak, that chance would be so much the brighter. To war-weary German civilians, invasion must also bulk large as the one development likely to bring a quick decision, win or lose...
...they may also be deceptively encouraging. In Western Europe, for example, a large proportion of the U.S. losses were heavy bombers, each lost plane representing two to eight times as much plane and five to ten times as many men as the typical German fighter which made up the bulk of the enemy's losses. Concealed in the ratios is the significant fact that 1,579 enemy planes were destroyed on the ground, as against 76 U.S. planes-strong evidence of how firmly the A.A.F. held the initiative last year...