Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this constant hide-&-seek the Russians with their larger numbers have an advantage which the Germans can offset only with superior air and armored forces. Lacking this superiority, the Germans recently indicated that they would attempt only a limited offensive, perhaps intended mainly to reduce the Red Army's tank strength, and thus improve the Axis' chances in a prolonged campaign...
...Costly. For both sides the waiting was not easy, and it was not cheap. In many small actions along the front ground losses were constant. The Russians said they killed 2,000 Germans near Orel. Moscow said that the Luftwaffe, in seven weeks of May and June, had lost 3,595 aircraft, the Russians 987. Just how to evaluate these claims, the outer world did not know.* If literally true, they indicated that actions larger than any announced to the public had been in progress, that the Luftwaffe was helpless and decimated, that the Germans had no chance of survival...
Radio has in general tried to follow printed journalism's tradition of a free press. But there has been constant trouble. Commentators can and often do convey their own feelings toward news merely by tone of voice. Their daily entrance into 30,000,000 U.S. homes is very inti mate and puts a premium on voice rather than on brains or integrity. This accounts for the fact that much of the output of U.S. radio pundits is pontifical tripe...
Shortage of Valets. Complaints and demands are constant. Higher Italian officers beef about not having enough valet service. They want to buy more phonographs, especially big electric models (some have money of their own). One German officer demanded a canary. Both Germans and Italians worry the guards with trivial requests-like going for beer after hours. Common complaint: not enough mail. POWs are permitted to send two letters, one postcard a week...
...Plane Section. By constant experiment and discussion (often by long and argumentative letters), Thach, Flatley and other young airmen finally agreed that the old-fashioned three-plane "V" section was outdated. Their substitute: a two-plane section which was nimbler, deadlier...