Word: headon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well content, Molotov raised but did not Dress Moscow's third immediate demand-recognition and seating at the conference of Poland's still unreconstructed Warsaw Government. Stettinius, backed to the hilt by President Truman and Anthony Eden, met Molotov headon, and the Polish proposal never had a chance...
...were two Japanese armies at least 100,000 strong: the Eighteenth, under Lieut. General Nijusan Adachi, with headquarters at Madang; the Second, spread from Geelvink Bay to Vogelkop's beak at Sorong. But it was no part of MacArthur's strategy to meet any of these masses headon. His strategy was to fight only as much as was necessary to gain footholds behind them. Then he was behind them and they behind him. Whichever lost control of air and sea was then undone...
...over this 1944 job, this world-wide job, to inexperienced or immature hands, to those who opposed lend-lease and international cooperation . . . until they could read the polls of popular sentiment; or whether they wish to leave it to those who saw the danger from abroad, and met it headon...
...Anzio beachhead, the German wound up and threw his heaviest blow, an attack by nine divisions to break the Allies, drive them into the sea. British and American troops met him headon. The action was so close that neither side dared to use hand grenades...
...third Zero came right up under the belly of my plane, sowing bullets up & down the fuselage. I dropped the nose of my plane and came at him headon. One of his bullets hit my windshield right in front of my nose, but it missed me. My own bullets were tearing him apart. We tore past each other less than 15 feet apart. When I looked over my shoulder, he had lost control and was spinning down...