Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They played endless games, stopping traffic sometimes, but what did that matter? I have even seen the Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée express train stopping when a bowling ball rolled on to the tracks. Do you think the Germans would understand a city like that...
...official German correspondent broadcast from the Don front: "When I first saw the endless Soviet columns, preceded by the heaviest tanks, an ice-cold hand seemed to grasp my heart. 'Almighty God, give us the strength to withstand this flood,' I prayed." The Nazis' official party journal, Völkischer Beobachter, informed its readers that "the last and highest decisions were at stake...
Trouble is, these shipbuilders all run into the same problem: shortages as seemingly endless as the rivets in a ship. Example: it was originally planned to equip destroyer escorts with steam turbines just like destroyers. But these turbines require hard-to-get herringbone reduction gears made by firms like De Laval Steam Turbine Co., Milwaukee's Falk Co. and the Farrel-Birmingham Co. Hence a switch was made to turbo and diesel electric drives. But this has run into a shortage of diesel engines and electrical equipment...
...autumn's fair weather there had been nights and days when a small raid or two and the endless slashing of Allied intruder aircraft against Germany's overstrained transport system were only pallid proofs that "Red" Harris intended to make good. But now, in January, when the winter was at its worst, the raids came hot, heavy and without cease. Perhaps, at long last, this was the promised beginning...
...merchant seaman facing danger on the high seas, two organizations stand head & shoulders above all others. One of them is an obvious object of professional admiration: the U.S. Navy. But the other would stump most guessers. It is the unpaid, volunteer Civil Air Patrol. Men in ships, hardened by endless repetition to the inherent hazards of their own calling, still gape with honest admiration when they hear the sewing-machine hum of a low-powered CAP engine far from land and see a tiny landplane soaring overhead, patiently on the watch for the feather of a U-boat...