Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from two working generals, who have seen the tractor fight the war all over the world, underlined one of the most pressing of Army production problems last week. When another Army big shot recently cabled "I've got to have 1,300 crawler tractors," the Army had to rob warehouses of badly needed agricultural units, had to beggar other essential construction programs, and even divert equipment from Lend-Lease commitments.* For-in some areas, at least-World War II has turned into a tractor...
...Paul Dubonnet, wife of the aperitif tycoon, once noted as "the best-dressed woman in Europe," renewed her pistol permit in Manhattan. She has been packing a rod ever since gunmen tried to rob her in a cab four years...
...soup fog might be catastrophic to invasion barges, compelled to navigate blindly. It would also rob the invaders of a chance to exploit initial advantage, help the enemy to shift his troops without air hindrance...
...want to eliminate the Führer and subject the Reich to a military dictatorship which, against the nation's will, would immediately start peace negotiations. The Führer, in his magnanimity, has refused to start to take drastic steps against the traitors in order not to rob the army of its leader at these critical hours. Report immediately to the nearest party office, police or SS every suspicious occurrence, every rumor, every colored or slanderous statement about the Führer...
...Turks must have weighed these factors as carefully as the Germans did. If they would, the Turks could now give the Allies a flanking position in the east to match the western position in Italy. If they would, the Turks could rob the Germans of all the time that they now hope to gain by resistance in northern Italy and Yugoslavia. For, with a free entry through Turkey, the Allies could establish a front in Bulgaria, attack the Rumanian hinge of the inner fortress, deprive the Germans of Ploesti's oil, threaten their armies in southern Russia from...