Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naval ensigns commanding the boats cut their underwater exhausts, gave their engines the gun, roared toward the nearing shore. Toward some of the boats the red balls converged in multiple lines. For some, other things went wrong. They struck sandbars or reefs. Ramps stuck. Men jumped too late or too soon. Some, on orders, leaped with their equipment into the water, sank to their chins or lower. Some drowned...
Johnson: Sir, my landing gear handle is stuck...
Zemke: Is it stuck down...
...Germans stuck to their assault tactics of last year: front-line bombing and heavy artillery preparation, followed by tank assaults and infantry. In defense, the Red Army also used familiar tactics, often letting the tanks through, then surrounding them and their suporting infantry. As at Stalingrad, the Russians had studded their front lines and rear with anti-tank strong points, ringed with mines, which caught the Nazi tanks in cross fire...
Bankers criticized Mr. Morgenthau furiously for his "fetish of 2%," arguing that the offering would have been a success if it had consisted of 2¼% bonds of 12 to 14 years maturity. But Mr. Morgenthau, breathing heavily, stuck to his old cheap-money theory, fighting the war boom as he had fought the depression. His program "to finance this war in the seven-to-ten-year range at 2%" was denounced as "stubborn amateurishness." His reason (labeled as "eyewash"): "to save this and future generations many millions of dollars on the public debt...