Word: strains
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There are few more difficult military operations than fighting a rearguard action against an aggressive enemy; under the strain most armies collapse. But the British, Australians and New Zealanders fought for 18 days and 245 miles-from Salonika to Olympus to Larissa to Thermopylae to Thebes to Athens-and not once did they allow the Germans to break through their lines in any force...
...only tried to put one large convoy through since last June, and that was the one in which the light cruiser Southampton was sunk and the aircraft carrier Illustrious was given a dreadful pasting by Axis dive-bombers. The effect of this was not only to put an added strain on British merchant shipping by requiring it to use the longer Cape route, but to force Britain to send many of her ships, including destroyers, to the Mediterranean where they are not useful in the Battle of the Atlantic. The Germans took advantage of this situation, risking their fastest surface...
Infrequently practiced, advantages of this method include economy and elimination of the strain on boat and builder during the few seconds in launching when the stern rests in the water, the bow rests on the ways, but nothing supports the waist. Before 1941's end Todd-Bath will have seven basins, some large enough to nurse and float three ships at once...
First inhabitants of Australia, Birdsell said, appear to have been a pigmy people, some 20,000 years ago. Later comers, according to the theory, were a primitive, hairy, white strain from south-eastern Asia, related to the hairy Ainu, of Japan; and a third, dark-skinned people, with thick brow ridges, bearing a relationship to certain peoples found in India, and Ceylon...
...prolific was Bangs that the number of his pseudonyms put a strain on his wit. They included Shakespeare Jones, Gaston V. Drake, Periwinkle Podmore, Horace Dodd Gastit, A. Sufferan Mann. In politics he was defeated for Mayor of Yonkers, but became a very useful bird dog for the imperialism of Roosevelt I and General Leonard Wood in Cuba (on which he wrote a book) and in the Philippines. Had Wood been nominated in 1920, Bangs would probably have gone to the Court of St. James's. In the reconstruction of France he more or less worked himself to death...