Word: dents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Near Kharkov, 400 miles to the north, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock's tight teams of planes, tanks, guns and men punched a dent, then tried to hack a great pocket in Marshal Semion Timoshenko's defenses. Eventually, if the Nazi plan worked, the pocket would become an ever-enlarging fissure...
...Then I noticed what appeared to be red flares passing overhead and turned to Captain Robert Bruskin . . . to ask what they were. 'Tracer shells,' he snapped. . . . After daylight we found fragments and saw where one had made a four-to six-inch dent in a [oil] tank before ricocheting off. . . . We found a German torpedo lying on the shore. It was a great big fellow, perhaps 18 ft. long, with a sharp nose...
Reduction of living costs by doubling up on House rooms and dispensing with the daily maid service would put a dent in the high cost of a Harvard education, but not enough of a dent. The other major phase of living, the cost of meals, must also be reduced...
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More serious is the prospect of 1942 traffic, for which the roads need at least 150,000 new cars. Last week carbuilders (for lack of steel) still operated at around 35% of capacity, making no dent on their 90,000-car backlog. In September, the roads got 9,000 fewer new cars than they had figured...