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Word: maginot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That Adolf Hitler last spring imported 30,000 gorillas from Brazil and these have now been trained in readiness to attack the Maginot Line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Interesting, If Not True | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

...bloodless conquest in Poland, he ran his land empire at last afoul the sea empire of Britain-and into an expensive, probably long and debilitating war which may well end disastrously for him and his country. The Allies have not cracked his Westwall-but he has not cracked their Maginot Line. His vaunted air fleet has not leveled Britain, as advertised, and once again Germany finds herself dangerously blockaded by the British Fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Man of the Year, 1939 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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