Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government will pay them back. Then, said Mr. Roosevelt, "We will make our plans. . . . One thing you can be sure of—we are going to see to it that there is enough rubber to build the planes to bomb Tokyo and Berlin-enough rubber to build the tanks to crush the enemy wherever we may find him—enough rubber...
...Last week he got Dewey's backing. He also has the backing of many independent Republicans. What he did not have and would not get was the support of the ancient, cast-iron Republican machine which dominates the district. The district GOPoliticos, backing Fish again, were set to crush any upstart at the primaries. The only chance for Bennet was to get Democrats in the district to support him as a coalition candidate in November. That kind of a coalition was up to Franklin Roosevelt...
...Japanese drove new spearheads into the Shanghai-Hankow-Canton triangle of southeast China today and appeared to be making continued progress in their whole effort to crush all Generalissimo Chaing Kai-shek's forces in this great region...
...about time. The U.S. Army could not ignore the fact that the Japanese had started a new campaign to crush China. It is a campaign which has far better chance of success than the lesser drives of the past five years-not only because of the fall of Burma but also because of all the Far Eastern catastrophes since...
...Japanese have been building up two great troop pools. One is at Hankow in central China, the other at Saigon in Indo-China. The latter might be used against India or Australia. But if the Japanese drives now under way are successful, both might be drawn on to crush China-the southern pool to drive toward Chungking from the south; the central pool to push a drive through Sian, severing northern from middle China and cutting off Chiang from his Russian friends. These two moves, undertaken together, would constitute a giant pincers movement on Chungking...