Word: crush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hopeful side, Britons argued that defenses had forced the Germans to try one tactic after another. First they tried to crush the Air Force by daylight dive-bombing attacks on airports; that failed. Then they went after communications and industries; that failed. Next they tried indiscriminate daylight mass bombings of London; that only stiffened morale. Last week they resorted to late afternoon bombings with incendiaries to light beacons for all-night mass bombings. Whether or not that was a failure remained to be seen this week. From all accounts, it seemed...
...Laid in the future like one of H. G. Wells's fantasies, it was called The War of 1938. Lyle's story was a forthright piece of propaganda. His object in The War of 1038 was to discourage talk of a negotiated peace, persuade the Allies to crush Germany altogether...
Artist Doctoroff, 47, is the nearest thing there is to a court painter in the U. S. His court is the Republican Party, where he made friends when 1) he won a contest for charcoal drawings of the late Calvin Coolidge, 2) the Republican Chicago Tribune got a violent crush on him. Trained at Manhattan's Cooper Union, where he took a four-year art course in two years, Artist Doctoroff was a modest illustrator in Dallas, Tex. when his Coolidge drawing, done from photographs, won over 1,000 others, was made the official campaign picture. He also drew...
When all the nuances and morals were brushed away, alternative U. S. programs for the Far East, he realized, fell into three general heads: 1) crush Japan; 2) make a deal with Japan; 3) prolong the conflict as long as possible. What really distressed Yosuke Matsuoka was that last week's quasi-embargo could be used, paradoxically, to further any one of the three programs, if & when the U. S. State Department ever should make up its mind to pick...
...Crush On You (Helen Ward and Joe Sullivan; Okeh). Good pop tune sung by Benny Goodman's original songstress, low-down accompaniment by one of the great hot pianists...