Word: robotized
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...Fighters. Meanwhile the ordinary missiles made trouble enough. A new type, with swept-back wings, began coming over at 390 m.p.h., which was 40 m.p.h. faster than the square-winged model and painfully close to the top speeds of the fastest fighters. One fighter had to chase his robot for 20 miles before he knocked it down...
...bombing, the Allies did their best to knock down the robot-launching platforms around Calais. When the invasion troops closing on Cherbourg captured two platforms almost intact, British experts moved in at once to study them. However, the platforms were heavily camouflaged, often tucked away in the corners of woods. Others may have been dug into cliffs in bombproof positions...
Addressing the House of Commons on the robot problem, Home Security Minister Herbert S. Morrison took a cautious line. He admitted that public utilities had been damaged, but only "slightly," and said that civilian casualties were running lower than in the "little blitz" of last February...
...other hand, it was noted that more people were seeking nightly shelter in the subways than at any time since the great blitz of 1940-41. And Minister Morrison warned that the robot barrage might not yet have reached its peak...
...Germany (where the robot was christened "V-I," for Vergeltungswaffe or "Reprisal Weapon" No. I), Herr Goebbels got cold feet about his first delirious claims of demoralization and destruction in Britain, and ordered his radio stooges to tone down...