Word: crush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shall do everything in our power to crush Hitler and his Nazi forces...
Hitler was full of haste last week. He wanted to crush the Russians at once. If he did not, if the war dragged into the winter, he might no longer be the chooser of campaigns. He was an old hand at breaking promises, but there was one promise-made, not to statesmen of the so-called plutocracies, but to his own people-that he did not want to break, for his power could break with it. He made it on the last day of 1940: "The year 1941 will bring consummation of the greatest victory in our history...
Peter Portal is a worrier and a hurrier. He knows he has a tremendous job to do and not much time. His job-as he sees it -is not only to defend Britain but to crush Germany. One of his first acts when he became Chief of Staff was to issue a strong recommendation that all Air Ministry officers work six ten-hour days a week...
...told how the German machine had swept into action at 3:05 a.m., the planes going forward to wake the enemy to death, then the pioneers creeping forward to do little engineering tricks, then the full German mechanized weight, noisy, swift, flaming, reaching out to crush and sear the great unknown weight across...
...Japanese hoped then to curl back to east and west, encircle and crush the two Chinese halves. But the Chinese struck north along the flanks of the Japanese salient and threatened to encircle the would-be encirclers. The Communist guerrillas, whose inaction in their areas behind the Japanese lines had contributed to the initial Japanese success, began to fight...