Word: stab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stab in the Back. It was at El Alamein that the Germans and the British actually faced each other; it was beyond El Alamein that the richest and most immediate rewards of conquest-Cairo, Suez-beckoned to Rommel. But the tense situation on that front invited action elsewhere...
...documents purporting to show that last April Gandhi planned to negotiate for peace with the Japanese was a bitter pill for the British. The reports of his later contradictory statements only confused the issue. The Government's position that Gandhi's call for civil disobedience was a "stab in the back" was widely accepted. Forgotten apparently was the famed Zinovieff letter of 1924, which swung an election through public misunderstanding. The British were hard pressed on many fronts, had suffered too many defeats and disappointments to have sympathy for illogical "blackmail...
...plainly see last week. The gallant promises from Comrade Stalin himself were being drowned out in the clatter of German armies moving forward, over a carpet of dead Russians, to the oil of the Caucasus (see p. 21). From the east came the rumble of Jap armies massing to stab Siberia (see p. 21). Stormoviks of the Red Air Force smashed at tanks worming their way through the steppes of the Don. They splashed the skies with smoke, fighting through Messerschmitts toward airfields skulking just behind advance lines on smooth terrain. The Russians were not beaten yet, but they were...
Germany's plan for the conquest of Russia is not only to stab at her vitals, but to smother her to death: to cut the remaining routes by which she receives supplies from her allies. Far north of the probing German armies last week the German Navy risked its precious little neck to go prowling for a huge Allied convoy...
...most excruciating ailments known to medicine, angina usually comes on after an emotional shock or physical effort. It often follows the same pattern: a piercing stab in the shoulder, a "squeezing" of the heart, lightning pains down the left arm, a drenching sweat, and over it all, a terrible sense of impending death. According to prevailing theory, angina is caused by constriction of the heart's blood vessels which cuts down the supply of fresh blood at the very time when it is most needed...