Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German mind. And now they had such an attack! Their first push had already driven straight across Holland to Rotterdam. Before the Allied Armies rushing northward from the French border had time to reach prepared Belgian positions along the Albert Canal from Antwerp to Liége, a swift and fierce German drive cracked the Liége defenses the second day. *Headquarters watched the progress of German columns up the Meuse Valley towards Namur and westward towards Louvain...
...waterworks, jam air-raid alarms, snipe at citizens, seize airports-told them: "The fight beginning today decides the fate of the German nation for the next thousand years!" And it was a week that saw a revolution in U. S. public opinion on World War II, a revolution so swift and sweeping that President Roosevelt's question had become academic almost as soon as he asked...
London's always truculent weekly The Aeroplane flatly predicted Britain would be bombed soon, implored the Prime Minister instantly to open "swift, methodical attacks by the Royal Air Force on Germany's communications, munitions factories, aircraft works and flying fields...
...Trondheim, though unbeaten, finally surrendered. In 23 days a husky nation of 3,000,000 people, living in mountainous, snow-covered country well suited to defense, and with some 35,000 supposedly modern soldiers sent to help them, had been conquered by an army of perhaps 85,000 skilled, swift-moving, hard-hitting fighters, and some 500 indefatigable warplanes. As a military feat of sheer nerve, though not of power, this conquest outclassed the 18-day subjugation of flat Poland's 34,000,000 people by 1,000,000 Germans and as many more Russians. Even after discounting Norse...
Thus, the small number of portages required will be for short distances only and never will necessitate a climb of more than 15 feet. Between dams the river is surprisingly level; hence, little swift water is expected to retard the upstream voyage...