Word: inferiorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easy to distinguish those who had used our grenades. Their chests and stomachs were both gone. Our grenades, which probably accounted for half the Japs we killed on Attu, carry a much more powerful charge. The Jap grenade is vastly inferior. Some Jap bodies were found beside three or four duds, indicating that the victim had had an exasperating time killing himself...
...tiger's, and he was the best damn cavalry commander in the American Civil War. (At least, that was what his men all said.) At Thompson's Station, Tenn. he drove a Federal battery and mounted troops from the field, made 1,500 men surrender to his inferior forces. At Black Creek, in 1863, after five days marching and fighting, he captured the Union's Colonel Abel D. Streight with all his artillery and 1,200 men. So disruptive were his raids that General Sherman once said that Forrest must be taken "if it costs...
Last week Russian communiques scarcely bothered with the small, scattered land fighting. Moscow talked of growing Russian air strength. Hitler's war plans had been based on air superiority. Now that superiority was gone. Said Radio Moscow: "The Luftwaffe is now vastly inferior both in quality and quantity...
...Japanese planes and pilots are inferior to ours, but there's no use kidding ourselves that we can take a steady diet of two-to-one numerical superiority in an area where our forces are so small we have practically no margin of expendability. That is our major weakness in New Guinea. Our forces are so limited that we can't risk any but missions which seem to have an ironclad guarantee of high returns and few losses...
...Nazi propagandist urged the U.S. people last week to buy meat on the black market. A short-wave broadcast in English attacked a U.S. Government report that black-market meat was inferior and likely to be diseased. The Nazi commentator sneered: "Trick!" He announced that in Boston everyone agrees black-market meat is "first class...