Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father's limited U.S. experience: Jan's mother, Brooklyn-born Charlotte Garrigue (Thomas Masaryk had respectfully added her name to his), had brought an American atmosphere right into the Masaryk home. "Mother always had confidence in me," remembers Jan, "and I did everything in my power to destroy that confidence, but it wasn't any good...
...Nazis want us to destroy Rome because they want to destroy our influence for good...
...overall sense the great air attacks now being launched from England are only the prelude to the unopposed destruction of German war potential and the land invasion that will finally destroy Nazi power. But in the immediate sense, the air campaign is itself a sizeable war, which has inflicted critical damage on the enemy's cities and armed forces...
...guns struck. Never before had so many cannon been fired at once; seldom had the devastation been greater. Into the huge gaps torn in the enemy defenses poured the waiting Russian tanks and men. Along with them went the "support artillery"-light field guns and trench mortars-to destroy what men survived the first barrage. Behind, the big guns rumbled...
Marshal Ivan Konev's men captured the Luftwaffe's key base of Uman. The Germans were still digging trenches when the Russians struck, had no time to destroy immense supply dumps, fled half-clothed. This week Konev's Army was pounding on the German defense wall...