Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...travelled extensively in Europe and while in Palestine in 1938 he saw the British crush the Arab revoke "in efficient manner." He attended school in France before coming to Harvard, where he concentrated in French literature. He was a member of Eliot House...
...came one of the strangest curiosities of World War II. On Monday, April 21, Greek General Tsolakoglou capitulated to the Germans. But either the Germans did not tell the Italians, or Mussolini, anxious to win his own capitulation, did not tell his people. So Mussolini, who had vowed "to crush the kidneys" of the Greeks, went right on hurling his soldiers against the stubborn Greek wall, until he had lost 6,000 men. On Wednesday, April 23, when the Greek situation was clearly hopeless, General Tsolakoglou finally surrendered to the Italians...
There are two means which the industrialist can employ to crush labor, the professor said. One way is to hire strike-breakers to "crack the workers' skulls." The other way is to pass a law outlawing strikes...
...automobile plant of Henry Ford at River Rouge is organized along almost purely Fascist lines, the professor stated. The strike-breaking methods used by Ford are similar to those used by Italian industry to crush the workers' strike years ago on the eve of Mussolini's rise to power...
...moral strength has waned. This can cause him severe setbacks, and has already cost him one. A tiny nation, Yugoslavia, had dared to defy him, with the result that the plans for his spring campaign in the Balkans had to be completely revised. Now his armies are committed to crush Yugoslavia, from Hitler's standpoint a useless and costly campaign-costly at any rate in time...