Word: gnaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these related actions constituted a concerted effort to gnaw through the successive layers of Russia's front-wide defense-in-depth. For the Russians, the most disturbing sign was Timoshenko's seeming lack of enough equipment to turn the German tactics near Kharkov to his advantage. Given ample arms, he was in ideal position to smash Bock's advancing forces by simultaneous attack from all sides of the pocket. Perhaps Moscow was holding its fire for a larger crisis at Kursk; perhaps Timoshenko preferred to wait until the Kharkov pocket was deeper, the Germans more vulnerable...
...Oysterman's. "I would have clams-all the clams I wanted. Then I would have the finest steak the world ever saw. After that I would have the best strawberry shortcake in New York." But when he went to Billy's last week, Correspondent Denny could only gnaw a pig's knuckle and go home. Said he: "After I got where I could get decent food I ate too much and got fierce pains in my stomach. The doctors tell me my stomach shrank while I was in jail and I tried to stretch it too fast...
...Beelzebub!" he roared at his right-hand man. "Get this unsufferable nitwit out of here. Put a few adders and a serpent or two into his belly to gnaw where the bullets shattered his spine. Then send him back to his hell on earth. . . ." And that is the reason why the conquered people of Europe, the "silent people" who suffer and wait and hope for liberation, first heard last week that Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi hangman, had been killed in Czecho-Slovakia; then, later, that he was not dead but would be hopelessly crippled. Heydrich might still...
They learned, also, to ally themselves with the free fighting men of the hills, to "harry the enemy like fleas in a dog's tail so that the beast can make no headway for stopping to gnaw his rear." Ling Tan's sons wandered, but always secretly to return, sophisticated in the ways of killing. The eldest son set deep traps and coolly killed his victims with his knife. The second smuggled in firearms from the hill-men, and killed only when he had to. The youngest killed for pure joy and found joy in nothing else. Ling...
...able to gnaw the Axis, steeltough jaws are necessary and not rosy ones used to chewing gum. If you only knew how good and beautiful are the children of Rome and Berlin and how much poetry there is in the youth of Europe, then you wouldn't listen to your and our enemies...