Word: exhaustedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rommel started his offensive last month, he seemed weak in the air; correspondents cabled exultantly about R.A.F. superiority. It turned out that Rommel had plenty of planes. The British were also confident that their ground forces matched the enemy. One thing Rommel did, apparently, was to let the British exhaust themselves winning their "victories," then throw in his reserves to take the real victory. Moreover, he changed the pattern of desert warfare by stepping up the role of artillery. Before Tobruk's fall, when the British, confident of equal armor and equal or greater air strength, attacked Rommel...
...Facing aircraft cylinder heads and other exposed steel parts with aluminum to prevent corrosion by weather, salt sea spray and engine heat (as in exhaust manifolds...
...Heath gives a complete, two-hour medical examination featuring the usual knee-tapping and blood testing, but with special emphasis on medical history. Dr. Lucien Brouha at the Fatigue Lab is known by many undergraduates as the operator of the seven-mile an hour treadmill, which is designed to exhaust the student. Strapped to the student's chest are electrodes, which amplify his heart beats and record them upon a moving tape. In the first of two sessions at the laboratory, the metabolism and the respiratory pattern of each student are taken, after he has gone breakfastless and has rested...
...third calamity of the trip came when the vigilant New York police spotted a leaky exhaust on one of the vehicles, and benched it. So the 60-odd men and their baggage piled into the one remaining wagon, capacity 35, and inched through a blizzard...
...full moon. He took only 20 minutes' instructions, and then said he was ready to have the gasoline tanks and bomb bays filled because it was getting late and he had a date at dawn with some Jap transports. He took off to the north, leaving only an exhaust stream visible against the starry sky. I know he isn't alive now, but I'll bet he caused a lot of damage before he went down. He died happy. God rest his immortal soul...