Word: licks
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...problem was to lick the manpower and housing shortage, the intense, bone-chilling 35°-below-zero Soo winters, in order to slash the 20-month scheduled estimate. When weary workers poured the last concrete-mix a fortnight ago, the scheduled time had been slashed by seven months. For this feat, an Army and Navy E went to the Great Lakes company...
Phil Ault, of United Press, wrote: "[The American Army has] long ago dropped the attitude that any five Americans could lick any five Germans automatically just because they were Americans and had fine equipment...
...Those hills are the toughest sort of going," said Patton in his room at head quarters. "A few men holding good positions are the hardest to lick. We can't kill many of them. They must have gotten their mortars in there with mules. I'd give anything for one good pack." On the third day the infantry commanders told General Patton they would be able to complete their assignments that day. General Patton ordered his armor forward. The infantry felt their urgency too strongly and pressed on too fast on the hillsides, not taking the very tops...
...battle gave great point to the Allies' first announcement of a joint attempt to lick their most serious problem. That attempt has been in process for weeks (TIME, March 15), but was made public and official for the first time last week...
...Trondheim fleet actually includes two carriers, they are probably converted merchantmen (the Graf Zeppelin and Deutschland are not thought to be ready). The British feel that they could lick such a force. But the burden of keeping enough ships at hand to counter the many moves open to this fleet in being has a "momentous effect" on Allied strategy...