Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long at his appointment in the north? Kinkaid's jeep carriers had already caught it hot & heavy from the Japs' central force, which whipped through San Bernardino Strait before dawn-before the jeeps' aircraft could get off. The CVEs were at no pains to hide their plight: they shrilled for help in uncoded voice radio...
Meanwhile England watched warily for the appearance of Germany's long-promised V2, reputedly a rocket bomb of vast destructive powers and far greater range than V1. Considering Germany's industrial plight, V-2 might seem a forlorn hope to the soberer Herrenvolk. But after the V-1 blitz, Britons were not discounting anything. England would not be entirely safe until Germany...
There the enemy's plight was serious, but he was dying hard. He did panicky things, but where he had the troops he fought fiercely. At points the going was worse for the Americans than it had been back on the Norman beaches. At one point the Germans used a "psychological tactic" borrowed from the eastern front-a shoulder-to-shoulder frontal assault by screaming, yelling infantrymen. The Indian-silent G.I. reaction: mow 'em down...
...German armies shattered in France, none was in worse plight than the Nineteenth, which had had the job of holding the Mediterranean coast and the great Rhone-Saone highway to Dijon and the Rhine. Hamstrung by Allied air power before it could even get into action, the Nineteenth has never had much of a chance...
...Perplexed . . . Stunned." Before week's end it was clear that the plight of the six German divisions in southern France was more critical than the conservative communiques had said. Four German generals had been captured. * Fifty thousand Germans-more than half of all the enemy in southern France-had been killed, wounded or captured...