Word: juggernauts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pacific, with the landings on Okinawa, the U.S. juggernaut moved within 400 miles of the Jap mainland...
...might hang the immediate fate of Berlin-perhaps ultimately of Germany itself. Minefields, German armor, and heavy snows so thick that correspondents said they felt, rather than saw, the movement of endless hordes of Russian men and armor, could check but could not permanently halt the hate-filled Russian juggernaut (apparently neither could an unseasonable thaw). The Germans, too, felt the Russian fury as tons of shells bored holes in the grey, low-hanging clouds and burst in sprays of red-hot fragments. On a 140-mile front, north & south of the Küstrin-Frankfurt sector, Zhukov kept...
Died. Thomas Joseph Pendergast, 71, most notorious political boss of the century; of heart disease; in Kansas City. Son of a teamster, old "TJ." built a small Democratic ward machine in Kansas City's Italian section into a powerful and corrupt political juggernaut. He ruled Kansas City in its bawdiest, gaudiest era, hired ghost voters by the thousands, bet millions on the ponies, hand-picked Governors and Senators, started Vice President Harry Truman up the political ladder. Heavy-set and heavy-jowled, he was the incarnation of the cartoonists' political boss-especially when he wore...
...what of Russia? With Germany's defeat, would she too want to share in the crushing of the Jap juggernaut? Would her help be needed? The answer: probably not, but it would be welcome...
...very vitals of the kakistocracy* in Democratic Boss Frank Hague's Hudson County. He signed into law a bill passed by the Republican-dominated legislature, compelling Hudson County to install voting machines in each of its 658 election districts. To Hudson County dwellers, who have known only the juggernaut Hague machine (X marks the voter, dead or alive) for 27 years, this was a shock. No longer will Boss Hague be able to sit back on election night, wait until all other Jersey votes have been counted, and then send in whatever Democratic total is needed from Hudson County...