Word: slimmer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hard Choice. Meanwhile, food stocks were growing slimmer. From Washington came encouragement: the U.S. would send food to Germany. Moreover, Washington had come around to the view that the U.S. would have to pay its own occupation costs rather than charge them to the bankrupt Germans. The U.S. preferred to add enormously to its bill for World War II in order to achieve one of the war's objectives: the permanent disarmament of Germany. Insistence on cash or goods from Germany would mean restoring her heavy industry and, with it, her war potential. Washington was willing...
...dust beside wrecked vehicles and one dead mule. They had run into an American road block while trying to escape north ward." By the 21st day of the offensive, 120,000 of the estimated 250,000 Germans in Italy were prisoners. The chance of escape for the rest grew slimmer by the hour...
...might turn out that in spite of P.A.C. the Republicans had at least held their own in industrial areas, but had lost be cause Republican districts had backslid -yielding slimmer majorities than anticipated...
Perhaps behind these barriers, manned by limited reinforcements from the north, Field Marshal Kesselring might still regroup his shattered units, turn them back to the fight. His chances were getting slimmer by the hour...
...chance of being commissioned an officer. But times have changed. Throughout the country's training camps last week many an aspiring soldier was learning that the process is no longer easy. Men now facing the draft are likely to learn that the chances of a commission are even slimmer...