Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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If generals in other countries were surprised at Sir Alan's appointment as Britain's land-defense chief, British generals understood. He is no scintillating genius, but the job he did, in one week, of whipping together the Southern command out of tens of thousands of exhausted men...
In their desperate need to deal at top speed with tens of thousands of wounded who had to be rushed on to steamers in the Channel with the Nazis only a few jumps behind, hard-pressed, sweating surgeons had to have some new and faster technique of treating wounds. Fortunately...
Every year since 1934, at sunrise on Easter morning, Nancy Brown has sponsored a sunrise service on Belle Isle. Her readers, who flocked to the services in tens of thousands, heard preachers and speakers, but never were allowed a glimpse of her. With the fur collar of her coat turned...
Such war raged across 23,000 square miles of Europe. The explosion of men's nerves and brains became as commonplace as death and wounds. Casualties were impossible to assess in the flowing confusion. Four million men were engaged in the business of slaughter, their killing power multiplied by...
The Harvard cyclotron has a power of 37 kilowatts, more than is used in most radio stations. A similar machine in California is capable of producing as much radiation as 700 grams of radium, which would cost tens of millions of dollars.