Word: endlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shouted war song of wave after wave of those still to come drowned out the dying screams of those ahead. Over this human pandemonium roared the steady thunder of German artillery blasting the infantry's way, French artillery replying with sheets of screaming metal to stop the endless horde, and roaring swarms of airplanes from both sides diving and darting over the battle...
Barrage. In place of the artillery barrage which used to precede tank attacks on strongly held positions, the air arm led the way. Attack-bombers swooping low (to 300 feet) in endless triads blasted forts and weaker defense positions. They sprayed the defenders and their gun crews with machine-gun fire, turned and dumped their bomb loads. Other planes laid smoke screens for tanks to charge under. Allied gun crews had to resort to plotted area fire...
...eight times the area covered by clashing land Armies, the world's first great air battle was being fought last week. There was more to the battle than myriad engagements of fighting planes, more than methodical, day & night bombing of objectives behind the lines, more than the terrifying, endless strafing of ground troops. Last week's battle was the first big test of Douhet's famed theory that victory belongs to the side with the greatest air force...
...knocked from under it, undergraduate teaching must stand on its own feet. For students genuinely in need of assistance the Bureau of Supervision stands ready, and it must be perfectly efficient. With its old cancer thus cut out by a final surgical stroke the College can concentrate on the endless struggle to raise the quality of its teaching...
...timbers in here put in long before this was the U. S. A.!" We walked, waded, crawled & scrambled & slid through the endless tunnels-"there's 500 miles of tunnel in this mountain," the boys said-down 200 feet of sharply sloping rock piles, peered down fearful shafts, heard about the mine's famous ghosts and were mighty glad to get out of there, I tell...