Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Surprise for Americans. U.S. tanks armed with 75-mm. guns are too light to stop German armor, said Baldwin, "unless they get in close-range lucky side shots. Even the bazooka no longer holds its former terror for some of the German monsters." Heavier 76-mm. and 105-mm. guns are effective "but only at relatively close range." The German 88-mm. "is as good as or better" than the U.S. 90-mm. high-velocity piece (now mounted in the U.S. M36 tank destroyer...
...General : "We have begun to rebuild a great army [line grande armée]. . . . Allied cooperation is assured us for arming . . . new units. . . . Until the total defeat of the enemy and the permanent establishment of French security on the Rhine, no day will pass without our sword growing heavier...
...bark playfully. The signalmen tried to quiet him, but Tuffy took it for play, and barked again. There was a quick council, conducted in monosyllables, then one of Tuffy's masters reached out in the dark and strangled him. The silence in the cellar was deeper and heavier than ever...
...workers seized the city hall, settled down for a hunger strike to force the Government to open the local mill. Grau had appeased the mill owners with four-year tax exemptions, had threatened to cancel their quotas unless they ground sugar. The mills remained closed. Then Grau cracked a heavier whip. Sugar mills would prepare for production at once, the President ordered, or face confiscation...
...Reston reported that Canada had already prepared recommendations to alter the Dumbarton Oaks formula. As that formula now stands, all peace-loving nations outside the Big Five are equally eligible for places on the Security Council. But in any future war Canada would obviously have to carry a heavier load than a nation like Panama. The Canadians, wrote Reston, were asking that representation on the Security Council, other than the Big Five, be restricted to countries with the will and power to put forces at the Council's disposal. In Ottawa an official spokesman called Reporter Reston...