Word: hard-hitting
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...Cherbourg-Calais-Rouen triangle, during the slow, crunching offensives that set up the U.S. breakthrough. Caen had felt Montgomery's massed artillery, but its nth Century Abbaye-aux-Hommes survived. Rouen Cathedral was the only major French church in partial ruin, but it had not been "nearly so hard-hit as Reims was in World War I. From Saint-Lõ forward, U.S. guns had chopped down church steeples to blast out snipers...
...Diphtheria. In Gateshead, England, which has had severe diphtheria epidemics (2,911 cases, 147 deaths) during the past ten years, Dr. Richard J. Dodds tried heavy doses of penicillin (besides diphtheria antitoxin) on a test group of 13 hard-hit patients. One died, but the rest recovered more rapidly and with fewer complications than patients who got only antitoxin...
...businesses for "just one car of coal." SFA had only 23,000 cars left (a little less than a normal day's mining) of the 33,000 it had hoarded at the strike's start. At best the supply might last another week. In Chicago and Philadelphia, hard-hit utilities prepared for a return to the wartime brownout...
...help the hard-hit islanders become self-supporting again, the British Government agreed to pay deficits, made gifts and loans. But in return Britain demanded control. To replace Newfoundland's freely elected Assembly and Legislative Council, the British Dominions Office appointed three English civil servants and three Newfoundlanders to form, with the governor, a Commission of Government. The Commission turned out to be a dictatorship, however benevolent, and it never won public approval. Moreover, it could not lift the island out of the economic doldrums...
...lectured in Balliol College during Oxford's Trinity Term on the background of Angle-American constitutional institutions. "At Oxford it's much the same as here at Harvard," he asserted. "The students are either too young for military service or rejected for physical reasons. The faculty has also been hard-hit by the demand for men in the government services. Like Harvard, Oxford is trying to carry on with the cultural subjects in spite of the trend toward technical studies...