Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Washington came further definitions of current officialese:
The attack on Pantelleria was a valuable lesson in modern military tactics. The conclusive effect of air bombardment plus sea blockade was proved. Further proof came when other tinier and also isolated islands fell. Bomb-shaken Lampedusa gave up to a startled R.A.F. flight-sergeant, Sidney Cohen, when his torpedo...
In the perspective of global war the victory was small. The Japanese struck with probably no more than 60,000 men. They lost perhaps no more than 10,000. The entire arena of combat was only 70 by 60 miles. There was little likelihood of a further change in the...
¶ The New Guinea foothold held possibilities of a further Allied thrust into the Jap's defensive wall at Rabaul.
In their systematic, silent war against the shipping which supplied Japan's island conquests, U.S. submarines in the Pacific last week were credited with further success: seven Japanese vessels sunk, six of them merchant ships, one a destroyer. This brought the total of Japanese ships sent to the bottom...