Word: hardest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real play would begin. The biggest and hardest job, the greatest in military history, still lay ahead. Maybe then there would be time for real celebrations...
...Corps (as Lieut. General George Patton had been at Gafsa and El Guettar, where it had been expected that tanks would be supreme) was Major General Omar N. Bradley, a top-notch infantry soldier. Tall, wiry and grey, General Bradley is as tough as his hardest topkick. He was an outstanding athlete at West Point. When a new 550-yard obstacle course was opened under his supervision at Camp Claiborne in Louisiana, he personally tested its 14 hazards at top speed...
...Hardest-hit is the saltwater fisherman. Outside of surf and bay fishing, there are only a few spots where saltwater angling is allowed: notably in the Pacific off Southern California's Santa Monica pier, where chartered boats may go as far as ten miles offshore ; in some parts of the Florida keys ; and the famed tarpon paradise at Aransas Pass in Texas. To fish in any salt waters requires a Coast Guard Permit...
Doolittle for Long Ranges. The Strategic Air Force sends its bombers against enemy supply lines and rear bases. Said General Spaatz: "This group of flyers struck perhaps the hardest blows in daylight ever delivered by an air force." The commander of this group, U.S. Major General James H. Doolittle, had to be reminded last week that April 18 was the anniversary of his raid on Tokyo. He looked in his logbook, found an entry describing "a 13-hour flight - one landing," and said: "So it was." On a typical day last week his Fortresses found 112 Axis transport planes...
...Those hills are the toughest sort of going," said Patton in his room at head quarters. "A few men holding good positions are the hardest to lick. We can't kill many of them. They must have gotten their mortars in there with mules. I'd give anything for one good pack." On the third day the infantry commanders told General Patton they would be able to complete their assignments that day. General Patton ordered his armor forward. The infantry felt their urgency too strongly and pressed on too fast on the hillsides, not taking the very tops...