Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final, dark hours of the week, as U.S. mechanized cavalrymen battered through a Japanese road barrier and roared into Manila from the east, the event was more than the attaining of a great objective: it was a high-water mark in the inexorable rising tide of the American war effort. No one doubted that there would be hard fighting aplenty before the Philippines were entirely redeemed; but Manila was the crown and symbol of the entire Southwest Pacific campaign. The war that had begun in defeat and humiliation had yielded a great victory: clear-cut, renowned-and semifinal...
...also Reich Minister of the Interior, and Reich Minister of Home Defense. The Volkssturm and the Volksgrenadiere (TIME, Dec. 25) are his creations, and their members are under his control until committed to action. Although Goebbels holds the imposing title of Reich Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort, in that role the little man is simply Himmler's assistant, a sort of glorified collector of old clothes, hardware and bric-a-brac for the Army...
...Germans looked across their lines and grew alarmed at what they saw. Their radio bleated that General Dwight D. Eisenhower' was making "frantic preparations" for a new drive, "with no effort to keep it a secret...
...Pawns. What use Stalin will actually make of Paulus & Co. in conquered Germany was uncertain last week. Originally, the committee was set up not to rule Germany after the defeat, but to persuade the German Army and people to overthrow Hitler. Paulus and his fellows failed in that effort, but they may still have a place-perhaps a big one-in Joseph Stalin's plans for conquered Germany...
...Pawns. What use Stalin will actually make of Paulus & Co. in conquered Germany was uncertain last week. Originally, the committee was set up not to rule Germany after the defeat, but to persuade the German Army and people to overthrow Hitler. Paulus and his fellows failed in that effort, but they may still have a place-perhaps a big one-in Joseph Stalin's plans for conquered Germany...