Word: pent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late July Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley briefed war correspondents and made them a promise. His pledge: give him three hours of good flying weather any forenoon and he would break out of Normandy. The pent power of his U.S. forces back of Saint-Lô, like a gigantic rocket, would be loosed into the chute carved by a 2,000-plane air bombardment. After the breakthrough-the General made no promises...
...Germans were heavily fortified in depth, but the sudden release of pent-up Soviet power was overwhelming. German Commentator Ernest von Hammer described "masses of tanks and fighter-bombers on a scale never seen before during the entire Russian campaign." Red sappers advancing toward the Pronya River behind a wall of artillery fire found pulverized German bodies in shredded uniforms, said that they "looked as if they had suffered death several times...
Fortunately, thinks Maier, German frustration is likely to lead to its own partial cure. As bombing and invasion intensify the German people's frustration and reduce their capacity for external aggression, Maier predicts that they will turn their pent-up fury on their own leaders, kill Hitler and other conspicuous Nazis. If they do not thus take matters into their own hands, he believes the solution of the German problem may be indefinitely prolonged. For he fears that war-guilt trials by the United Nations would only heighten the frustrated furor Teutonicus, while failure to punish the Nazi leaders...
...Berlin, in Moscow, in London, in freed Rome, military men calculated the great fact of one continental war on three fronts; the fact which had ever spelled defeat to German strategists. They measured the pent-up might of the Russian hosts. They tried to analyze the first tremors in the uncertain Balkans, in what was left of German Italy, on those coasts of France and the Lowlands which were yet to be invaded, but certainly were affected by stresses placed on German arms and transport in the west...
...fighting ability of the U.S. Marines is never questioned. But sometimes soldiers and sailors are irked by the signs of conscious superiority inherent in every Marine. In Gismo (meaning "gadget"), a publication for all servicemen in the South Pacific, this pent-up irritation was let out in doggerel "believed to be by a sailor...