Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uncertain Reunion. The slow task of identifying the dead went on until after midnight, began again, next morning, continued through the day. Time after time, mothers, fathers and husbands, with ammonia-soaked gauze held to their faces, saw the figures they sought, but could not recognize them. Doctors, dentists and even jewelers, were called to check fillings, scars, rings and watches. Volunteer workers on the armory's drill floor asked patiently, "Was there a wide space between his front teeth? Did he have any identifying scars? Did she have gold fillings...
...than 100 badly burned women and children. Hartford was a city of funerals. Every hearse, every livery car was in constant use; undertakers toiled night & day, and some funeral parlors were holding services at 15-minute intervals. In the late hours Friday, all day Saturday, all day Sunday the slow processions moved through the streets; the quiet crowds gathered, dispersed and gathered again in the cemeteries...
What to do? The party might fall back on its political genius, hope to win the peace even if the war were lost (see FOREIGN NEWS). But that would be easier to plan than to perform. The Allied forces were strong enough to smash "slow delaying actions." And how long, and how well, could German troops fight, once they knew they were no longer fighting...
Adolf's Choice. Rundstedt's unenviable place in the west was taken over by Field Marshal Gunther von Kluge, a slow-moving, 61-year-old officer who had done some fair to good defensive fighting in Russia up to last autumn. A Junker himself, dour Kluge, whom German soldiers call "Melancholy Baby," is a commander of considerably less standing than Rundstedt, may give Marshal Rommel a freer hand...
When the halt comes, General Sir Harold Alexander has several choices. He can assault frontally, which may be a slow and costly operation. He can attack on the Adriatic side, where the Line is narrowest. He can try landings on either side. Or he can sit, keep the Germans engaged in Italy while things happen to them on other fronts...