Word: onslaught
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...result has been the most rapid conquest of territory in modern history. In the first 38 days of their onslaught, the Russians pushed their enemy out of 110,000 square miles. Every hour, on the average, they had swept over 121 square miles. In 38 days the Russians claimed to have killed and captured more than a half million German troops. From Vitebsk to Warsaw, they had traveled more than halfway to Berlin...
...after the landing, MacArthur announced from his headquarters that the initial operation had been a "reconnaissance in force" but that because of its unexpected success it was now "being developed into complete occupation." Reinforcements were rushed to Momote airfield-just in time to stop the Jap's heaviest onslaught. At week's end another communiqué indicated that Momote airfield might be in the bag. Enemy "dead & wounded are estimated at 3.000. . . . We lost 61 killed and 244 wounded." Said General MacArthur: "Our troops are preparing to resume the advance...
...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...