Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what they had to say, one fact stood out: Germany had lost the war of nerves that had raged through the pre-War summer. No Polish ally backed down. Isolated Germany began the fighting. No friend moved to aid her in the 26 countries of Europe, and although a swift Polish victory could draw them in, none moved as the talking stopped, the shooting started. More completely alone than any great power at the start of any great war, Germany plunged into conflict so vast that victory for her could only mean, not that a lightning war was irresistible...
Last week the world's best correspondents cabled the greatest stories of their lives. In every capital of Europe they followed the swift unfolding of as big a crisis as war or its threat could make (see p. 32). No one of them could see it all. Its spread was too enormous, its moves too rapid and secret, its possibilities too terrifying. But because no crisis in history has been so fully reported, their accounts made a pattern, threw a strong light on the strength and weakness of the antagonists, whether the conflict was to be waged with diplomatic...
Dictator Benito Mussolini has given this task to the "Army of the Po" under General Ettore Bastico. Its 50,000 men are divided into three corps; "armored" divisions equipped with heavy tanks and mobile artillery; four "swift" divisions of fast tanks and light guns; "motorized" troops which can travel at high speed over open roads. Theoretically, after the armored corps has made a breakthrough, the other divisions will keep the enemy rolling back without an opportunity of reforming its lines...
During those critical days General Joffre, who had called Gamelin "one of my red blood corpuscles," came to admire his little aide's unfailing composure as well as his swift and incisive tactical foresight. Paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln, he observed: "If this is philosophy, it is time all generals were philosophers...
Americans eat 15 billion pounds of meat a year. It has made fortunes and names for four U. S. families-Armour, Swift, Wilson, Cudahy. It keeps 129,000 men at work the year around...