Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week there were signs that Admiral Doenitz, newly upped to command of all Hitler's naval forces, may fear a bold attempt to seize the coast of Brittany, smash the submarines at their source, just as Allied air raids on Germany have attempted to choke off submarine construction. German broadcasts announced that civilians had been ordered out of Brest and Lorient. From Brest alone the evacuation of 22,000 nonessential civilians already was under...
...into another column about the peonies in a neighbor's yard. Often, and excusably, he pops with pride, says something about his 42-year-old son, William L. White, whose name is on the Gazette masthead as publisher and who, as a foreign correspondent, has written two recent smash bestsellers: They Were Expendable and Journey for Margaret But most of the time Editorialist White is translating state and national issues into rich, rolling language full of human juices. His dominant trait: fairness...
This year, under Coach Kiphuth, whose swimmers have been breaking records for 25 years, Ford set out to smash the classic 51. Last week, during a dual meet with Springfield College (which Yale won, 59-to-16), he did it - by three-tenths of a second. "Some day he will do 100 under 50 flat," beamed Kiphuth...
Newsmen met Montgomery in his desert headquarters. He sat through the interview with a fly whisk balanced steadily on one finger. "I have defeated the enemy. I am now about to smash him," he asserted flatly, relaxed and asked: "How do you like my hat?" Then wearing a tank corps beret which he had picked up, he climbed into a tank and rumbled off after his troops like a skinny avenging angel...
...great offensives of history.* From Leningrad to the Black Sea, along a 1,500-mile front (see map), the Red Army was staging one operation with one purpose: to break the German hold upon Russia at every point where the Wehrmacht had anchored its lines, then to smash into and destroy the rear systems of communication and supply, without which the Germans cannot recover in the spring...