Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hamburg. Düsseldorf was the capstone in the week's grim monument of destruction. The bombers' first target was Hamburg. On that factory of submarines and other war machines more than 600 bombers dumped their loads-first tens of thousands of fire bombs, then high explosives shatteringly...
At home, German women, whom Adolf Hitler called "the fighting soul of the fighting front," marched dutifully into the fields. With them went their children and their grandparents. From France came trainloads of workmen urged on by Pierre Laval who last week offered to trade tens of thousands of workmen...
Young Germans by the tens of thousands had learned to glide. Versailles had denied them, military planes-but not gliders. The invasion of Crete, 22 years later, paid off Versailles' thinking. Planes towed gliderfuls of soldiers to points a few miles off the Cretan coast, then cut them loose...
To oilmen this move is something worth watching, for Mike Benedum is the luckiest wildcatter ever. With a $500 grubstake and more nerve than a circus trapezist, he got into the oil business in the '90s. In no time at all he made a killing in West Virginia oil...
Tens of thousands of Arab workmen were delighted by the good wages. But they remained skeptical about Britain's ability to stop the Nazis. Axis propaganda kept telling them that the British would let them down, whereas the Axis would make their dreams of a united Arabia come true...