Word: pointblank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elder Statesmen), who at 90 is almost a demigod. Prince Konoye is one of a handful who can come & go at the Imperial Household at will, and can sprawl in a chair before the Emperor. He is said to be the only man in Japan who has said no, pointblank, to Hirohito. He has been President of the House of Peers (1933-37) and Premier (1937-39). Imperial consorts and regents are picked from his family. Not even the Army dares question the authority of such a man. He has long been talked of as the only possible potential dictator...
...anti-tank and heavy machine guns, spaced fairly widely down the valley and highway pathways of assault. Successive, deeper rows of similar weapons were spaced more & more closely until they were backed finally by batteries of 75-mm. field guns, weapons able to knock out heaviest tanks when fired pointblank. The defense plan was to let heavy tanks push back into this final network, to have the advance units destroy motorcycles, armored cars, troop lorries following the heavy equipment...
...help enough. The French feared they would have to pull out of Breda before they had arrived there in force. On Sunday the Dutch were forced back to their secondary Grebbe Line, after being blasted out of their Ijssel Line by German field pieces fired pointblank into their blockhouses. This week the Germans broke through the Grebbe Line, drove to the sea near Rotterdam, cutting The Netherlands in two. Crown Princess Juliana fled to London with her husband, Prince Bernhard and their children. Princess Irene, aged nine months, traveled in a gasproof box. The Dutch cause shook when...
...white-topped, soft-answering little Welshman, combs through estimates submitted in advance each quarter, snips off dollars here and there. The two pinchfists, old fighters for economy in government, specialize in slashing salaries. The Senate had given up to "Big Red" its jealously hoarded powers, let him fire appointees pointblank. With these weapons, the Governor...