Word: crush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Simple Truth. The Allies long ago made a strategic choice: beat Hitler first, then crush Japan. To the critics of this decision Churchill opposed a "simple truth": while "the defeat of Japan would not mean the defeat of Germany, the defeat of Germany would infallibly mean the ruin of Japan...
...betide high-rate mortgage holders, owners of real estate who want to conserve equities, municipalities which retard progress with high taxes and antiquated building codes! Celotex's Dahlberg is prepared to crush them with the cry: "Your rights cannot override the rights of the people!" If cities won't tear down buildings, replan streets, extend their limits, or if whole municipalities won't merge: "We must move to other fields and abandon such cities to their fate...
...they have won. They are solidly behind the Emperor and Premier Hideki Tojo, a strong, able and extremely popular man who is a powerful symbol of Japanese unity. Within the country, there is no opposition worthy of the name: the Allies must rely solely on their military power to crush the military power of Japan...
...Leon Blum. Chic as a Paris bandbox, its jet-black walls garnished with white lilies and orchids, the Blue Angel gave off more than a suggestion of the smarter mortuaries. But it ceased to be funereal when a swarm of De Gaullist refugees and friends produced an opening-night crush of such confusion that New York Daily News Columnist Danton Walker (see p. 54), for one of the few times in his professional life, was presented with his own check...
Veterans of seventeen days at he NS CS (4/7.4/23, inclusive dates) every Wave feels as harrassed and harried as an S.O. or a D.O. after his ninth fogey. Those first thirteen disbursing problems with their 845 answers threatened to crush hitherto battered but unbroken spirits...