Word: crush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine. What is more, the new guns have longer range, throw a heavier shell (2,300 lb., instead of the 2,100). Net result: the 18 big guns on North Carolina and Washington will almost double the 16-in. broadside power of the Fleet, tremendously enhance its chances to crush an enemy line...
...more Greeks could put up stiff resistance against the heaviest odds. But if the Nazis also attacked through Yugoslavia's Vardar River Valley, west of the Struma. leading directly to Salonika, they could strike the Struma's defenders from the rear and probably crush any forces that Greece would be able to muster...
...have two sons. One is an ensign in the U. S. Naval Reserves, the other will be of draft age in June. Still I can't believe that our program should not be an all-out effort to crush the dictators, instead of trying to appease them...
...travelled extensively in Europe and while in Palestine in 1938 he saw the British crush the Arab revolt "in efficient manner." He attended school in France before coming to Harvard, where he concentrated in French literature...
...succeed in establishing a few beachheads. If they do, the defense counts on 1) the Navy to cut off water-borne supply, 2) the R. A. F. to resist airborne supply and reinforcements as well as attacks from three air armies totaling 18,000 planes, 3) the Army to crush the invaders on land...