Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure, he gave an interview last week to the New York Times's Herbert L. Matthews, the Baltimore Sun's Mark S. Watson and a correspondent of the London Times. He told them that Mussolini had sought to dissuade Hitler from war in 1939, but that the swift advance of the Germans through Belgium and France in May 1940 changed his mind. In placing the blame, Badoglio omitted to mention King Vittorio Emanuele's signing of the declaration...
Among those who will thus seek enlightenment from Plato to Marx are Packer Harold Higgins Swift, Department-Storekeeper Hughston Maynard McBain (Marshall Field & Co.), Publisher Marshall Field, Lawyer Clay Judson, Chicago Daily Timesman Richard James Finnegan...
...Darien's experimental road stands up under ice, snow and other punishing weather conditions, its engineers expect at least two postwar results: opening of a vast new market for steel and swift rebuilding of the world's bombed roads...
Fighter cover is now recognized as indispensable to the landing of troops. Now that the Allies are on the offensive, Salerno and Emden meant that future amphibious operations could make longer leaps and, as Douglas MacArthur said, "Permit the application of offensive power in swift massive strokes...
...General's swift little blitz was bitter work for his Australians, who had some support from a few U.S. troops...