Word: plight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each move at one point weakened it at some other point. Everywhere Germany was losing: at home, from the mightiest air assault in history; in Russia; in southern Europe. It was there, from Sicily and Italy to their Cretan outpost, that the real nature of the Germans' plight was most apparent...
...tank guns. But many of our units managed to keep only their machine guns and rifles. It is with those weapons that we have been meeting since this morning wave upon wave of Russian tanks. . . . The grey sky is marked by swarms of enemy planes. . . . They add to our plight by swooping down upon us without being hindered. . . . Our soldiers have long ago thrown away all their belongings, keeping only their rifles and ammunition...
...Even if the current offensive is only the first stage of a bigger one, the limited scope of the initial attack reflects the plight of the Wehrmacht. In 1941 its objective, along a 1,500-mile front, was to destroy the Red Army and seize the U.S.S.R. In 1942 the objective, along an 800-mile front, was to seize southern Russia and isolate Moscow from the rear and the south. In 1943 the Wehrmacht attacked on a 200-mile front, aiming at a town and at a portion of the Red Army...
Washington's total of CDVO men & women has dropped from 70,000 to 48,000 in the past 18 months. Washington needs 6,000 air-raid wardens and 14,000 other workers to bring the organization up to minimum strength. But Washington's plight is not unique...
...were on our way up" when the New Dealers stepped on the prepared ground and planted the Europeanized seeds of reactionary bureaucracy. They substituted "an unplanned economy for the virility of self-faith and manly enterprise." The results of their thinking, says Taylor, are apparent in the present plight of the U.S. and the world. "History,'' says Taylor, "will never forgive them. ... I have refrained ever since from saying I am a liberal. I answer that I am an American...