Word: storming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French used to call Metz La Pucelle ("the Virgin"). Up to last week this historic Lorraine stronghold had never been taken by storm. Attila's Huns destroyed it in 451 A.D., but there were no Roman legions there to defend it. It was still in possession of the French when they surrendered in 1870, of the Germans in the autumn of 1918. The French claim that quislings gave it up in 1940. Last week, for the first time, Metz gave way under attack-by Americans...
...October, British-based heavies had a record month of 100,000 tons of bombs dropped, almost all of it on Germany proper. The U.S. Fifteenth Air Force based in Italy unloaded 13,100 more tons on northern Italy, Austria, Bavaria, Czechoslovakia. The Luftwaffe rode out the storm on the ground, and Allied losses were light, less than...
...front can be called a pause before a new, annihilating blow at the enemy. This offensive will be directed . . . at Germany's vital-centers." Chimed in a Berlin spokesman: the Russian winter offensive is "directly imminent. ... It is not a real calm; it is the quiet before the storm...
...Storm in the Night. The Third Fleet's carriers were giving close support to the Army on Leyte, blasting the 1944 schedule of the familiar Tokyo Express (see below). Before this, they had struck two terrific blows against the Japs' land-based air power on Luzon...
Linda Darnell, who in six years of Hollywood fame has played many svelte sophisticates (Summer Storm, Daytime Wife), finally reached 21. Hearing that the Hays office had been killing her pin-up pictures, she remarked: "That's one difference being 21 makes. I don't believe they've paid attention to me before...