Word: robots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week ago." began tall, young Duncan Sandys (rhymes with ampersands), facing a packed press conference in London. Lieut. Colonel Sandys -also M.P. and husband of Churchill's daughter Diana-who has been in charge of Britain's defense against buzzbombs, then gave the facts of the robot blitz, now ended...
Time for Rejoicing? Britons naturally felt relieved at the end of the robot blitz. A few of them regarded this feeling as premature, fearing that V-2s might soon be dropping on Britain from within Germany itself. But few if any appeared to realize the terror that the robot still might represent for Britain...
...soon as the robot is improved in distance and accuracy, Britain will live permanently in range of a barrage from Europe. If another war starts, Britain and Germany may make a shambles of each other's cities any morning, at the push of a button...
...that matter, if the robot is improved as much as the tank and the plane were between wars, one end of the shambles might be in New York...
...first 100 miles of the British-Canadian advance, 120 launching sites were overrun, and many more were isolated as the British crossed into Belgium. Robot attacks on the 'London area fell off sharply. The Germans seemed to have abandoned the heart of the launching area around Calais, for the few missiles that came over early last week were from the Belgian coast beyond Dunkirk...