Word: going
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system of rationing by food cards was working so cumbrously in German cities last week that standing in long queues before food shops became the rule. Special red cards, permitting the holder to go at once to the head of the queue, were issued by the Nazi Party Peoples Welfare Department to "pregnant women, the lame and mothers rich in children...
...speech by A. Hitler used to be the signal for every Soviet station to go on the air and try to drown him out. By order of J. Stalin all Soviet stations were respectfully silent during the Reichstag speech (see p. 34) and Russian listeners who understood German heard every word.* Soviet comment was uniformly favorable, particularly as to the Führer's claim that Eastern Europe is now a sphere of Soviet-German influence in which they will tolerate no intervention by Britain and France...
...around the 20% Axiom, General Erich Ludendorff invented the tactic of "infiltration," opposed to previous mop-as-you-go theories. He postulated that when various parts of an advancing line meet heavy resistance, they should halt; the others, finding weakness, should penetrate and, as the surrounded enemy capitulates, join forces beyond. Usable in big or little units, infiltration was the plan of Ludendorff's big push on March 21, 1918, which almost licked the Allies...
...miles from military objectives. It wasn't a war against soldiers. It was a war against civilians. I arrived in Warsaw after most foreign correspondents had left. Each day I took a car, a camera, and an interpreter and drove out as near the front as I dared go. On September 15, two weeks after the invasion started, I went out to the suburbs on the German side of town...
...Decks are awash, down we go in precisely two minutes," said Mr. Miller, eyeing his watch...