Word: harassments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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cackled the three fates, their work done, thinking fiendishly of the thousands CPA Jr. would harass...
Late in September 1941 the Germans moved in, made an air base at Longyear City, from which they could harass Allied shipping to Murmansk. Six months later a Norwegian force returned. Eighty-two of them in an icebreaker and a fishing vessel crawled up Green Fjord, where they were sighted and attacked by German Condors. One ship was sunk, the other set afire. Survivors climbed out of the subfreezing water on to the ice and got ashore at Barentsburg, carrying their wounded, 15 skis, a few rifles and a single, broken lamp...
...superiors in Berlin, refused to let Sicily be a second front. In Sicily the Germans risked just so many planes, so many tanks, so many German troops-probably no more than 10,000. Their total force was not enough to hold Sicily; it was enough only to harass and delay the invaders. But it was used with economy and considerable effect...
...April 13, 1942, the President vested in BEW complete control of all public-purchase import operations. Mr. Jones has never been willing to accept that fact. He has instead done much to harass the administrative employes of the board in their single-minded effort to help shorten this...
...When German military power was at its height on the Continent, Thörnell took a poor view of Sweden's ability to defend herself for any length of time. But with the Swedish navy of light cruisers, destroyers and 50-knot-an-hour motor torpedo boats to harass the enemy, Thörnell could risk a war-provided there was likelihood of Allied success in Norway spilling over quickly to his assistance. Gallup polls have shown repeatedly that the majority of Swedes believe they can avoid war. But they have completely organized against air raids and incendiary bombs...