Word: letup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comic Relief. Britain's first election campaign in nearly ten years had been punctuated by high jinks. The name-calling between Labor leaders and rambunctious Tory Lord Beaverbrook (who artfully drew most of the opposition fire) continued without letup. Young Tory Brendan Bracken, 44, First Lord of the Admiralty, had more than names flung at him : a milk bottle tossed through the window of his car narrowly missed his head. Laborite A. V. Alexander, ex-First Lord of the Admiralty, narrowly missed the nomination deadline because the car buretor of his car had been "tampered with." Bernard Shaw briefly...
...raging Russians answered with the greatest artillery barrage they had yet loosed on the capital, continuing without letup through the day, the night and the next morning. Then the German commander-Nazi Artillery General Kurt Webling, in charge of Berlin defenses-came himself with a white flag, and did his surrendering within the Soviet lines. Just to make sure, the Russians loaded special sound trucks with Nazi officers, sent them to broadcast the terms...
...walked at least a mile for any kind of cigaret; candy-eaters really lost weight for lack of sugar; gum-chewers glumly clumped their jaws on nonresilient chicle. Again & again weary clerks reminded shoppers, as nastily as they could, that there is a war on. Prospects for an early letup were gloomy...
...Civilians were getting 2.09% fewer cigarets this year than last. The shortage, universal throughout the U.S., had only started; leading brands will be increasingly scarce during the winter, with no real letup until after V-E day. Reasons: 1) manpower; 2) shortage of paper for shipping cartons; 3) a jump in orders from the armed forces; 4) counter-to-counter shopping by individual smokers for their favorite brands...
That night the U.S. airbornes inflated their few boats again, crossed the Lek to relieve the men in the "patch of hell." Gradually the Allied foothold across the Lek was strengthened. But still there was no letup of the German pressure. For this was also a battle of desperation for the Germans. U.S. columns advancing eastward from the rescue corridor drove into German territory a few miles from Cleve, the anchor of the Siegfried Line. This was not merely a battle to rescue the British airborne. It was a battle to turn the whole right flank of the German army...