Word: holocaust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spearhead, U.S. engineers set the torch to the base's munitions dumps. Thousands upon thousands of rounds of ammunition and fighting equipment of all kinds, stored up with infinite pain from the trickle of supply across the Hump from India, were blasted to destruction in a 48-hour holocaust...
...until he had safely completed the sale of the Sheepshead Bay race track, and whose sales in a single year (1922) topped $100,000,000. Just after World War I started, he put the lid on his own legend by trying to persuade the world that the holocaust could be stopped if Germany bought a piece of France at a price high enough to persuade every last penny-pinching Frenchman that peace had a profitable price...
...although many a statesman and soldier fears that the invasion of Europe may prove a holocaust, the senior U.S. ground forces commander in Britain promises that even this will produce only moderate casualties (see below). Even...
Germany did its best in retaliation. Twice in the week Nazi planes bombed London and sprinkled it with incendiaries (see below). London burned again, but only in isolated spots. The fires and destruction were nothing to compare with the holocaust of Berlin, where a third of the city, possibly more, lay in total ruin. To Berliners there would be no "greatest" raid any more. Death is not comparative...
...shot Stalingrad (eight of them were killed on their jobs) have provided history with some images of war as true as they are powerful. Some of the images: > A great, flaming city which seems to float on a tranquil river until the Volga also flames from the reflected holocaust...