Word: onslaught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those jobs was the Gilberts. The next, as the world was learning this week, was the Marshalls. When the story is all in, the U.S. can judge how much Terrible Turner has learned himself, how well he has put over his preachments. On the success of the Marshalls onslaught will depend the future of Kelly Turner and the Pacific...
...minutes that Breneman spends trying on the audience's hats, which he refers to as "this molting feather duster" or "something special in the way of a potholder." Some women now deliberately show up with their most eccentric headgear, sit waiting for Breneman's onslaught...
TIME Correspondent Duncan Norton-Taylor, on the bridge of another U.S. ship, was an eyewitness. He cabled: "Five of their ships died in our first onslaught. Others spoke back . . . but soon it was plain they were depending more heavily on another weapon. The frantic enemy was firing torpedo spreads...
...once been a pugilistic blitzkrieg. The flat-faced little boxer was the only fighter ever to hold three titles simultaneously-feather, light and welterweight. For five years it was a near certainty that chocolate-colored Henry Armstrong's opponents would eventually crumble before the inhuman, tireless onslaught of will and pounding fists. Last week at Madison Square Garden, the Armstrong repertory of lethal motions was on display, but the crucial Armstrong hammer was no longer part of the equipment. If it had not been Armstrong, it would have been funny...
...Army General Konstantin Rokossovsky. They, along with Colonel General Vassily Sokolovsky and Colonel General Ivan Konev, were the men chosen to command the hydra-headed counterattack on Orel and Belgorod last month. They broke the short-lived German summer offensive of 1943 and developed the battle into a Russian onslaught...