Word: thunderbolt
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...staff had to devise a plan for crushing Russia in a few months' time-a campaign as crushing as those against Poland in 1939 and France in 1940, a campaign better than the blitz-that-failed against Russia in 1941. This had to be the greatest thunderbolt of all and it had to strike on time...
...World War II, the product of Franz Halder's planning has always been a thunderbolt-the lightning that withered Poland, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France, the shaft that staggered Russia last year. Thunderbolts should strike on time. Hitler's time in Russia-his only time-is now. The world has a right to expect something terrific. If it should not strike, if it should not be terrific, then history will also be made. For then the Nazi war machine is in trouble and its days of glory are numbered...
...Cover) He clasps the crag with crooked hands . . . he watches from his mountain walls, and like a thunderbolt he falls...
...Army was willing to show that armament-it was yesterday's-but the number and caliber of guns on the Warhawk, successor to the Kittihawk, was as much a military secret as Republic's P47 Thunderbolt, the giant 2,000 h.p. fighter...
Today Bachelor Kartveli, like other top-drawer ideamen in aviation, is busy about next year's design. But sometimes he goes out on the field to watch his 2,000-h.p. (Pratt & Whitney) Thunderbolt in the air. He's proud of the beast. "A nice plane," he admits, in an accent tinged with French, rather than Russian. "But she's too big." Airmen who fly the beast could argue with him, but they don't. They know it's an esthete's criticism...