Word: onslaught
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...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...
...week's onslaught on Nelson added up almost to an indictment. Congress was weary of the fumbling. The Senate planned soon to pass the Maloney bill, which would strip Nelson of about half his powers, those over civilian supply, and turn them over to a new agency directly under Economic Czar Jimmy Byrnes (TIME, April...
...south of the Mareth Line, British and Fighting French units had made a wide sweep and were clawing their way towards El Hamma. Rommel sent German armor to bend back this threatening arm. Allied armor and an "unprecedented" onslaught of aerial power met the German column. So terrific was the air attack that even veteran Germans wilted. Only 20 miles from Gabès, the column drove on, threatening to close Rommel's corridor of retreat (see map). At that juncture, Montgomery shifted and struck again at the Mareth Line...
...nation had not suffered as the British had-here the transition had been by little jerks and tugs and nudges, not by a cataclysmic and continued onslaught of bombs and fire and death. The U.S. saw its returned heroes, excellently groomed, limping a little, surrounded by silk-stockinged chorus girls; the British saw their maimed husbands and sons crutching through the streets, smiling chins up, surrounded by cotton-stockinged nurses...