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Word: extrema (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack. The Allies, determined to have these bases, warned Italians that all-out air raids were near, and precipitated a mass exodus from Italian cities. Spanish Fascists in Berlin, newspaper correspondents who until lately had written of coming German offensives, cabled Madrid newspapers that the Germans were now in extrema defensa (a last stand)-and that Nazi militarists now talked of a "wall of blood" around the shaken Reich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall of Blood | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

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