Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...therefore, fight for the restoration and perpetuation of faith and hope throughout the world. . . . We are united in seeking the kind of victory that will guarantee that our grandchildren can grow and, under God, may live their lives, free from the constant threat of invasion, destruction, slavery and violent death...
...Germans had battered their way to he Volga in places; they had brought up artillery to keep the river under constant fire. For Russia the Volga's usefulness night be ended temporarily. That was a German objective. But to win the 1942 offensive the Germans must take Stalingrad to have & to hold. In Russian hands he city is an ever-present menace to German lines strung through Rostov down into the Caucasus. Unless the Germans an consolidate their hold on the Volga nd clean out Stalingrad before November rains herald winter, Stalingrad will be Russia's victory...
...World War I; whom another Chief of Staff once compared to Stonewall Jackson; of whom a well-informed civilian observer recently said: "If George Marshall is no good, God help the U.S." Last week a responsible official who holds no great brief for "the Army mind," yet is in constant contact with General Marshall and the Army, said of him: "I do not know any other officer who could have done the job he has done quite so well...
...possibly 18) vessels, including six or seven destroyers and probably two cruisers. Damaged: 24 vessels, including destroyers, cruisers, submarines and transports. Destroyed: 22 planes. Estimates of Japanese troops on the islands had run as high as 25,000. Actually there were about 3,000, and they were subjected to constant and frightful attrition. Said a U.S. officer: "The Japs are now getting an idea of what Corregidor was like...
Dakar? The Axis reported angrily that the Allies had blockaded Vichy's port on the hump of West Africa and were about to seize it. If so, the Allies were aiming at a point of constant threat to the mid-atlantic, to Brazil (1,800 miles away) and to vital ports of entry in mid-Africa. But Allied action at Dakar could scarcely relieve Russia or even loosen the German hold on the Mediterranean...