Word: hards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would do so before the French artillery-ponderous 155-mm. howitzers lobbing shells from far behind; flat-shooting 755 moving up into the cleared area-have pounded at the Wall forts for many days. The concrete fortresses of the Maginot Line are 150 ft. deep in some places and hard as flint. French hope was that the Westwall concrete, poured more hastily, can be pulverized by France's really heavy artillery...
...Basic Nazi technique of systematically shocking and sickening the population, making it apathetically submissive to totalitarian control, was worked hard. Last week Germans took United Pressman Fred Oechsner on a tour of captured Polish villages, showed him the bodies of 25 villagers, claimed they had been mutilated and killed by retreating Poles...
...Hard-headed Nazis scarcely expected Britain and France to accept peace offers, hoped rather to maneuver into a position where they would seem, both in German and in neutral eyes, guilty of prolonging war. The first response from London was disquieting. The War Cabinet met, decided: 1) to base Britain's policy on the assumption that the war will last three years or more; 2) to instruct all Government departments to make plans on that assumption; 3) to expand production, especially munitions, to meet the demand implicit in that policy; 4) to maintain export trade in the interests...
Twenty World's Fair midgets, who registered for German military duty with Manhattan's German Consulate. Cracked an observer: "They'd be hard...
...arrangements for a Japanese-owned Guam-Tokyo link with the China Clipper. Another was in Manhattan expansively buying U. S. instead of German automobiles and machinery. Six Japanese goodwill fliers spanned the U. S. The Japanese knew very well that if the Divine Gale hit the U. S. too hard, it might turn around and blow a not-so-divine fleet across the Pacific...