Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They will have to handle a 10-15% greater load next year-meaning to move their heavier trains faster than ever before...
...week's end one column was ploughing into Gabes. Axis reserves, probably from Tripolitania, had either infiltrated through the Allied southern prong or dashed ahead of it and were streaking northward to the aid of Tunis. Fighting all along the contracting front grew heavier. Inexorably, to the north, the scythe swung against Nehring's iron ring...
Author of the work is Alexander Aflnogenov, chiefly known for his heavier plays, including "Fear," which was presented in this country a few years ago. "Mashenka," a lighter piece, was written a year and a half ago, just before his death in a Moscow air raid...
First a lone British destroyer, then heavier fleet units moved into the city's anchorage. The Union Jack was the first Allied flag up over Algiers' docks. (At first the Tricolor continued to fly over Governor Yves Charles Chatel's residence. The warships did not long have the harbor in peace: the afternoon after Algiers' surrender, German Stukas (presumably from Sicily or Sardinia) attacked. Twelve miles offshore Axis, British and U.S. planes mixed in the first of many battles which will be fought before the Allies have unquestioned command of the Mediterranean...
...wince at his slangy jollities in matters Roman ("Life wouldn't be worth a punched denarius"). Psychologists will nod retroactively when Marcellus has "reasons for surmising that [Antonia] was a victim of repression." Wodehouse fans will note the Jeeves-like quality of Bodyguard Demetrius ("You will need some heavier sandals, sir ... a shower and a rubdown put you in order. I have laid out fresh clothing...