Word: onslaught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fort Devens relied on an explosive three-run onslaught in the second to down Coach Floyd Stahl's Varsity batsmen Friday by a 4 to 1 count...
...popped out swiftly to man his machine guns. Occasionally cliffs had to be scaled, hand over hand with the help of thorny lawyer vines: the Jap, creeping from his caves, pulled the pins from mortar bombs, dropped them on the attackers. Such fighting necessarily slowed the Allied onslaught. Patrols probed ahead to pinpoint enemy positions. Plane and artillery bombardment constantly softened the Jap defenses. But direct assaults had to be made against limited objectives because of the tangle and sheerness of the country. Gradually, however, the Jap was being dislodged, pressed back to the defensible peninsula of Salamaua itself...
...northeasterly direction around the Kolombangara coast. We paralleled our course and opened up before they apparently even knew we were there. In the flame and thunder it was impossible to know completely what was going on, but we knew that five of their ships died in our first onslaught. Others spoke back, their shells raising geysers less than a hundred yards from...
...Economist analyzed Nazi plans. "The Germans clearly expect an onslaught from the southeast. For months now defense workers have been . . . fortifying the Greek coasts and some of the islands. ... In Bulgaria the mountain passes have recently been fortified. . . . [The Nazi] aim in the Balkans must be to defend Rumania for its oil and to prevent a break-through into the great plain of Central Europe. . . . The Germans can hope that the Allies, after exhausting themselves in expensive attacks on the outposts, would have to face a heavy counteroffensive from the air and heavily mechanized armies operating from well prepared...
...Germany Ready? In the Balkans Germany is hurrying to complete defense lines against an expected Allied onslaught. The Germans have three major defense lines in southeastern Europe. One line starts on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast, curves south along the ragged border of Turkey to Alexandroupolis and Salonika, then cuts across Greece to Corfu and the Adriatic Sea. The second starts at the mouth of the Danube, runs up to Vienna and the Alps. The third follows the Danube to Vienna, then runs along the northern spur of the Carpathians to the main German defense lines in Poland...