Word: onrushing
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...Allied stand. British artillery and lumbering new Churchill tanks rolled up to block the pass at Sbiba. In the area of Tebessa-the Allied base for Central Tunisia-U.S. cannon and armor, supported by strong air units operating in dubious flying weather, pounded and slashed at the German onrush. In the critical Thala sector British armor, probably drawn from the First Army's reserves, and fresh U.S. artillery fought through the afternoon and into the night...
...armor courageously tried to stop the German onrush along the road to Sbeïtla. Lieut. Colonel Louis V. Hightower put his General Sherman tank between the advancing Germans and a fleeing motorized column. Hightower's tank held off nine Mark IVs and a Mark VI, destroyed four of them and damaged the Mark VI before a shell exploded in one of his gas tanks. Hightower shouted to his crew: "Git!" They got, jumping out "like peas from a hot pod." The other, thin-skinned vehicles had been saved...
...Kendall, a refugee-wise consulting mining engineer from Pasadena, turned up in Chungking with a story of how Hong Kong's 1,500 American residents boldly tried to stem the Japanese onrush. His best story by far was that of Dr. S. C. Moulthan, who loaded a motorcycle sidecar with guncotton, scooted off to the water front, there blew up two large ships to block Hong Kong harbor and scuttled 30 to 40 smaller craft...
...funds, ordered all Axis consuls out of the country, clamped down on Nazi propaganda agencies, and barricaded its borders against German and Italian travelers trying to get out or in. In retaliation Germany and Italy closed U.S. consulates in most of Europe and blocked U.S. funds. Caught in the onrush of this diplomatic war were thousands of Germans, Italians, and U.S. citizens, here and abroad-innocents and conspirators...
...peoples of the British Empire. With relish he discovered that the Empire's cannibals preferred black men instead of white. The whites tasted too salty. All the while he was gaining his superiors' confidence. Gloomily he expressed the fear that the British Empire might disintegrate before the onrush of "extreme nationalism." Prime Minister Chamberlain called that a "very brilliant and statesmanlike exposition...