Word: letup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London was still being scourged by buzz-bombs, but Allied airpower was smiting the Germans with greater force, the Germans were close to rout on the Russian front, being mauled without letup in Italy. Even though there was a stalemate on the Normandy front it was a time for rejoicing by Britain, which had once stood alone against the Axis. It was also a time to tell the world that the British Empire was still the Empire. Said Winston Churchill...
...Knowing People. The Germans knew what was ahead. A man would have to be deaf, dumb & blind not to know. Except for a few blissful days of bad weather, the air bombardment went on without letup. Deliberate, impersonal BBC announcers even gave statistics: two tons of Allied demolition bombs were smashing at Europe every minute of the day & night...
Then Navy Secretary Frank Knox, king of all he's-up-he's-down predictors, roared in his bluffest manner: "All talk about an early ending of the war is wishful thinking. It has caused a letup in production and we're already feeling the effects. . . .It's just criminal...
...things we must guard against. There must be no divisions among the Allies. There must be no letup in our preparations...
...Manhattan the producer decided to gamble on the bordello. Without it - since the point of the story is that Madame Rowena's establishment is mis taken for a girl's school - the plot could hardly have unwound, which might have been a very good thing. For, without letup, the book grinds its spurs into its one spavined joke from a starting post of tastelessness to a finish line of tedium...