Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first objective is to smash whatever remaining power Germany may have with which to develop a future war potential, to drive the Nazis out of power and keep them out. War criminals will pay for their crimes with their lives and their liberties, their sweat and blood. That is the first objective of military government in Germany...
...began to look less as if the economy would smash itself headlong into a cliff -more as if it were going to run into a series of unexpected, nasty potholes...
...rumors found no public echo in Japan. Radio Tokyo, as defiant as ever, took full responsibility for starting the war in the East, pledged a battle alone "to smash the enemy, to avenge fallen Germany." An emergency Cabinet meeting drafted an emergency statement: the collapse of the Nazi Reich "will not bring the slightest change" in Japan's determination to fight to the finish. Emperor Hirohito gave the statement his divine approval...
Even in tragic China the war picture grew brighter for the moment. Japanese commanders, their communications harassed by locomotive-busting Fourteenth Air Force pilots, had been sweeping aside light, ill-armed Chinese troops to smash the U.S. air bases one by one. But last week they tried for Chihkiang, 300 miles east of Chungking, and ran into something new and hard...
Beyond being Hammerstein's biggest plum, Oklahoma! may have started his greatest partnership. He and Composer Rodgers have a second smash in Carousel; as Broadway producers, they are cleaning up on John van Druten's I Remember Mama; under the title of Williamson Music Inc. (both their fathers were named William), they are highly successful music publishers; Hollywood is excited over the forthcoming cinemusical they have made of State Fair; and they have plans afoot for another Broadway show...