Word: spate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Haul. The price was not exorbitant: without bearings, the mechanized German war machine eventually would be helpless. But the cost was high enough to elicit a spate of explanation. Said the chief of the Eighth Air Force Bomber Command, Brigadier General Frederick L. Anderson: "The entire works are now inactive. ... It may be possible for the Germans eventually to restore 25% of normal productive capacity." President Roosevelt implied that the raid was worth while. The chief of the Army Air Forces, General Henry H. Arnold, said: "The Schweinfurt attack will have a definite effect on the German war economy...
From conquered Europe came a spate of stories of sabotage and revolt. In themselves these acts did not threaten the Nazi regime, but they did demonstrate that Allied armies will not fight alone when Europe is invaded...
...statement was made when Congress party members and others were indulging in a spate of hunger strikes, inspired by grudges, pique and ignorance. Gandhi's denouncement was not a condemnation of his own activities: in his view, it all depended on who was fasting, and for what...
Immediate results were a spate of hartals (closing of shops), factory strikes, one bombing which killed three men, the start of a wave of riots. The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry clearly feared that the fast might bring a complete disruption of national life: the Federation asked that Gandhi be given his "unconditional release...
Brusque, dogmatic Professor Byrne started preparing his new course by asking 45 businessmen and scholars: "If you were to go back to college and take one history course, what would you want included in it?" He got a spate of suggestions that made eminently good sense but were so sweeping that no one teacher or textbook could teach the course. So Professor Byrne organized a battery of five history experts to help him give the course. It had a successful trial at Barnard last summer, may soon be paralleled in other colleges...