Word: perilous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst news for Russia last week was not the peril to Sevastopol, nor the Nazi advance below Kharkov. For the U.S.S.R. and her Allies, the worst news was that on the two fronts where the Germans attacked in strength last week they had more men, more planes, more tanks, more everything than the Russians...
...that would serve a double purpose. The seizure of the Kuriles would completely open the way for United Nations forces to flow into Manchuria and Karafuto. They would endanger the eastern horn of Hokkaido as the Karafuto offensive would endanger that to the west. So great would be the peril to Japan that Tokyo's first thought would be to withdraw its forces for the defense of the homeland. The United Nations could then accept 'absurd' risks. Once entrenched in Hokkaido, they need no longer fear any of the Nipponese far-flung pincers. The garrisons of Alaska...
...supply route to Russia, said a British seaman named Edward S. Phillips last week. He was just back from convoying supplies to Murmansk. "Ships sailing to or from Murmansk," he said, "go into action almost the first day out against surface craft and submarines." Confirming such accounts of Arctic peril, the Admiralty announced loss of the 10,000-ton cruiser Edinburgh and four merchant ships as the result of enemy attacks on two convoys plying the North Cape route. Yet Winston Churchill (see p. 26) was able to announce that, despite some losses, every convoy carrying U.S.British supplies to Russia...
...admire," President Conant stated, "the fortitude with which you continued the battle for freedom in dark days of peril, when as a nation you stood alone...
...blacker week since Singapore. No one vast loss, but a cumulative pattern of loss darkened the anti-Axis world; the fall of Bataan (see p. 18), disasters and failures in the Bay of Bengal and India (see p. 26), unabated retreat in Burma (see p. 26), the consequent peril to China. Heavier than any one of these tidings was the strain of waiting for the Nazis to loose their spring offensive...