Word: haltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Weather did not halt the German ersatz air force of pilotless V-bombs, and by last week Allied commanders were willing to concede that the V-bombs had true military value when coupled with an offensive. The Germans fired salvos of V15 and V-25, and a shorter-ranged, smaller version of V-2 as they would have used heavy artillery in advance of an assault. Their effectiveness was obvious: even haphazard strikes could do military damage aplenty in junction towns crowded with men and materials. The enemy claimed to have poured them on Antwerp, Brussels...
...Ruling the ancient city's defenders was one of the grimmest, most corrupt of Nazis: Palestine-born, Hebrew-speaking SS Obergruppenführer Karl Eichmann, who had made an enormous racket out of Hungary's anti-Semitic campaign. (He hired out the healthy, executed the aged and halt, opened escape routes to the wealthy...
...latest games of the Intramural basketball series. Paced by Baker, now the League top scorer with 40 points to his credit, the fighting Freshman team nosed out Company D, 28 to 24. Spence and Kettele, for the Navy, piled up six points apiece, but were unable to halt the Standish drive...
...measure of ground gained, Lieut. General George S. Patton's month-old offensive had almost ground to a halt. His big U.S. Third Army had been in hard going before-against the Maginot forts and in the Lorraine forests-but none had been so hard as the going along the Saar River and the first belts of the Siegfried Line...
...Halt to Coercion. The Secretary added other facts on U.S. treatment of German prisoners: censorship excludes books and periodicals containing enemy propaganda. There has been "substantial success" in preventing the coercion of prisoners by Nazi extremists. German-speaking American officers and enlisted personnel are assigned to camps whenever possible. Interpreters are available for U.S. officers who do not speak German...