Word: smash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hayes's roth Mountain Division was jolting the German loose from the Apennine positions upon which he had based the center of his line. South of Bologna expert climbers set ropes on sheer cliff faces. Up those ropes swarmed the troops to catch the Nazis by surprise, smash them back five miles through jagged country. U.S. troops, supported by Brazilians, drove against the defenses of the Panara Valley, reached for the highway junction of Vergato...
...over the green cabbage fields of Germany in a wide swath-many, many tanks in a single row abreast. Then, a suitable distance behind, came another great echelon of tanks even broader, out of which groups would wheel from their brown mud tracks in green fields to encircle and smash fire at some stubborn strong point. Behind this came miles of trucks full of troops, maneuvering perfectly to mop up bypassed tough spots. Then came the field artillery to pound hard knots into submission. From the flanks sped clouds of tank destroyers cutting across the landscape in wild swoops that...
That would make it easy for Indignant Citizen to follow blustery Pegler's latest scheme to win enemies & influence circulation: a one-man campaign to smash the voluntary wartime code of censorship, which all U.S. newspapers adhere to. Away with secrecy on the President's movements, said Pegler; next time Franklin Roosevelt goes to Hyde Park, I'll say so (if I find out about...
...mountains out of any molehill he can stumble on. With characteristically unpleasant glee he commented: "For the first time in the history of the Republic, the First Lady . . . has proclaimed publicly from the Executive Mansion that she favors birth control-at least for the lower classes. . . . A White House smash punch directed at the Catholic Church...
...York Daily News's Columnist John O'Donnell, whose words of praise for anything Rooseveltian are rare as a miser's largesse, was moved to remark: "The best job of reporting that the competent Early has turned in since . . . he scooped the world on the smash yarn that President Harding was dead...