Word: mauled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be up to the planners and plotters of Souk-el-Spaatz to defeat the Luftwaffe, support their own troops while they maul the Axis and block the enemy's evacuation from Tunisia. Their thunderbolt is an air weapon, but they have designed it to strike when & where it will best aid the men and weapons on the ground. This integration was the great achievement of Spaatz & Co.; how to achieve it was something they had learned the hard...
...trapped Axis animal was still strong, it had already mauled its enemy and would maul him again. Nevertheless the trap was slowly closing. At the fronts, along the supply lines in the rear (see p. 21 ), the Allies pressed on, knowing full well that victory in Tunisia by summer may mean invasion of southern Europe by fall...
...British, their strategy was to maul Rommel as they advanced, to lash at him in unexpected places-and they probably had a surprise up their sleeve. At best, superior Allied air power would be able to disrupt superior Axis ground power and give Allied infantry, artillery and tanks a fighting chance to turn the tide. At worst, the British would be routed, hurled out of Alexandria and Suez, and the Allies driven from the whole Mediterranean theater...
...Maul. In New Orleans, a cat scratched Mrs. Julian Hebert, who grabbed a revolver, gave chase, tripped over her son. The gun went off, shot the son in the knee. Mrs. Hebert threw the gun into the back yard, where it went off again, shot Mrs. Hebert in the foot. The cat escaped...
...mangy Hawaiian port of Kahului, a Japanese submarine crept closer toward shore in the dusk. A gun crew swarmed from her conning tower and gathered about the deck gun. Kahului, 90 miles by airline from Honolulu on the island of Maul, was going to get its first taste...