Word: juggernauts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...through that mess of cars and children at the bottom of the hill. ... I started praying. ... I didn't think much more but just prayed." The roller clanked downhill at 60 miles an hour. Somehow the stalled, tangled traffic jerked apart at the last split second; the juggernaut whistled through by a hair, pounded on down the street. "I missed the school bus ... I saw an opening on my right. Beyond . . . was a fire station, and my first thought was to crash into that and bring her to a stop. But the sidewalk was packed with kids.";) Still praying...
...Yugoslavia's Army is a rabbit-shooting outfit compared with the Hitler juggernaut, and Yugoslavia is surrounded by hordes of Nazis in Germany, Rumania and Bulgaria...
...Defense topics survived the regimental atmosphere. N. A. M.'s hard-working ex-president Henning Prentis Jr. attacked N. A. M.'s old bogey, "the juggernaut of collectivism." N. R. D. G. A. counsel Irving Fox discussed the Wagner Act, said retailers might soon have real union trouble ("the noose is slowly . . . tightening"). Other topics: "Has Your Store A Personality?," " 'Quickie Bars' for Hasty Patrons," "Dermatitis from Wearing Apparel." The delegates authorized a committee to raise funds for destitute British drapers...
Beginning with the forcing of the Maastricht defenses, the cameras follow-in plane, tank and lorry-every characteristic move of the Nazi juggernaut across the Lowlands, over to the sea, down to Paris, up the Eiffel Tower, into the armistice car at Compiègne. Residents of Manhattan's German colony sat chilled and stilled in their seats. With fine photography, which in itself emphasizes (in contrast to Russia's Mannerheim Line) the martial superiority of Teutons over Slavs, the picture shows the German Army's crushing, rhythmic power; patience and proficiency in arms; perfect planning...
What happened after that was a waking nightmare to the Washington fans. The Bears began to roll - like the German Army rolling through France. Dazed onlookers waited for the defenders to make a stand - in Belgium, at the Somme, at Dunkirk - but the juggernaut kept rolling, rolling, rolling. They chalked up 21 points in the first quarter, seven in the second. Radio fans, tuning in at half time, thought they were listening to a basketball game - or an Atlantic City auction. By sixes and sevens, the score jumped: "35, 41, 47, no 48, 54." Those who actually saw the game...