Word: robombing
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...impact of the Germans' robomb blitz on the lives of London's working people has not been told by the daily communiqué's "Damage and casualties were caused." This is the story told to TIME Correspondent Sherry Mangan by a London toolmaker in a defense plant. (Place names are necessarily fictitious...
...have brought his Fifteenth Army down from Flanders and his Nineteenth Army up from southern France and drawn the Seventh Army back so that the three could form a new front along the Seine and the Loire. But this would have involved leaving the Pas-de-Calais and Belgian robomb coasts and southern France open to attack...
Thus the Londoner stayed off the streets as much as he could. He planned his day with the robomb uppermost in his mind. He stayed away from windows. On the streets he saw hurrying people, noticeably fewer than two months...
This time there were no bomb bores with a shopworn story of a lucky miss. This time the robomb itself was the bore. Almost all other topics had gone out of casual conversation. Even last week's good war news was merely a minor point in the business of getting through another...
Harold J. Laski, Britain's brilliant, bucktoothed, left-wing economist, plunged five flights without getting out of bed when a Nazi robomb wrecked his hotel. The bed landed upright. Occupant Laski: unhurt...