Word: crush
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first offered the command of the French Army he refused unless he could have control of the entire front. He could have chosen no better way to hasten the single Allied Command, that has now given to him and the armies of the Allies their great opportunity to crush the hitherto invincible Hindenburg...
...would do till it was done. At Liege, when the valiant defenders were rejoicing that the German advance had been stemmed, and her great war-machine broken, she brought up, without warning, without boasting, her terrible siege guns, each drawn by nineteen tractors, and planted them where they could crush the ring of forts. Germany's first note of announcement was the roar of those guns, hearing which Liege knew itself doomed...
...allied in the common cause of justice, of democracy, of peace. Together we shall crush our common enemy, singing "Marchons, marchons, qu'un sang impur abreuve nos sillons...
...spike-helmeted invaders. However, the article shows us the impossibility of ever reaching an end of an armament race when no nation is content to rank less than first or a close second. We can only hope that when the present war eventually ends, the nations fighting "to crush militarism" will be in a position to strike at the root of it by limiting the armament race through some form of world organization...
...peace at any price" societies. The nation knows that Woodrow Wilson will not declare war unless it is the last resort. He should be left unhampered by the doubtful exhortations of pacifists. If Mr. Wilson decides that we must have war, let us have war, and let us help crush the violator of all rights, human and divine. If he can give us an honorable peace, let us thank God for his mercy. It is indeed deplorable that at this time, when patriotism should be at its highest, such an organization, its sentiments so alien to the past ideals...