Word: crush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Matthews quoted one estimate that there are 250,000 German troops scattered throughout Italy, tampering with internal Government offices, and prepared to crush uprisings. Naples "swarms" with Nazi troops. So embittered are the Sicilians that the notorious "Black Hand" has been reborn, leaves its mark on the knifed throats of German soldiers...
When new groves already planted begin bearing a commercial crop after five years, U.S. tung-oil production will be about 10,000,000 lb. A third of U.S. requirements might be satisfied-in time-if the remaining 500,000 odd suitable acres were successfully planted. This year's crush will produce some 8,000,000 lb., about 5% of what the U.S. needs. For the long pull the Department of Agriculture hopes to develop hardier tung trees (to widen the potential U.S. area for tung plantations) and trees that yield more oil per unit...
...blood and humiliation. Of the 38 persons critically injured, 33 were Negroes. Of the 104 persons locked in jail, 101 were Negroes. At home, the arm of the law saw to it that the theory of race superiority was kept intact, while abroad the Army fights to crush such ideas...
...Germans have by this time built up an offensive force . . . that can take care of, crush, capture and absorb any amount of war material, tanks, planes, guns, trucks, munitions-as long as that material is used defensively...
Coming thick & fast, harrowing tales like these were hard for the U.S. public to take. No one described the last thoughts and feelings of German submarine crews as their boats, plates cracked open by depth bombs, settled into the black crush of the sea. Ranging so far from home bases, attacking so close to enemy shores, the Germans were paying a tall price. And the men of the tankers continued to move oil. They were men, not ducks...