Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knock-out punch, but the size of the first attack this week in Normandy-on a front more than 100 miles long, from Cherbourg to Le Havre-gave the Germans good reason to believe that they had already seen the beginning of the Allies' main effort...
...rcher Zeitung of German city workers' "incredible toughness." But he added: "It is quite clear that the Allies' air offensive has already affected this spirit considerably." And then: "Traffic in the raided cities is difficult and takes a long time. The smallest task demands an effort. . . . Why exert yourself, if you may be dead tomorrow? . . . [The people] are so tired they crave for the end of everything at any cost...
...Fascist Paris Jour, had contrived to slip out of Algiers, turn up in Madrid. With him was Jean Rigaud, long his secretary, fixer and crony and a member of the short-lived Giraud government. The Gaullists suspected that Allied officials had supplied the passes and transportation, that a serious effort to save the skins of many Vichymen was being prepared...
After one futile effort at reconciliation, the Fourth Termers organized their own party, denounced the opposition as "Republicans" and "evil men," and went on to name their own rival slate of delegates to the national convention...
...Public opinion has become inflamed against our union. . . . Our union cannot survive if the nation and our soldiers believe that we are obstructing the war effort. Either we set our house in order at once, cease all wildcat strikes, or we face an attack no union can withstand...