Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main defenses they would be up against the same sort of grim battling that Lieut. General George S. Patton's bigger Third Army had run into when it reached German soil along the Saar River. There, last week, the Americans were slowed to a painful crawl by a torrent of steel. At one point the Germans hit back at the rate of 250 shells an hour. Devers' and Patton's adversary, General Hermann Balck, was fighting smartly with what...
There was plenty of trash in this torrent. But in the good mysteries there was good writing-considerably better than that in most current straight novels. The reading of mysteries and comics was no longer necessarily a sign of low literary taste. Turning away from the turgid, plotless "problem" novels of the 19303, both readers and critics were rediscovering the literary values of good storytelling...
...home, there was ominous news. A new kind of crisis had arisen, not unsolvable, but vexsome. The torrent of war supplies was thinning, partly because of titanic quantities chewed up by the war machine, partly because of manpower shortages in the plants. War Mobilizer Jimmy Byrnes warned the U.S. that the trickle of reconversion to civilian goods might have to be stopped altogether. The new icebox, the new car and the civilian helicopter were no longer just around the corner. Neither was peace...
...with tanks had failed to consider these obstacles, failed to consider the skill and determination of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's armies. German tanks were still able to counterattack. They contrived to drive the Eighth from a small bridgehead across the Fiumicino River swollen into a deep, swift torrent by steady rains...
Dribbles of truth in a gushing torrent of rumor gave a veiled outline of the Germans' departure from the Balkans. On a front which a month ago had been held by 100 divisions, the Nazis now had left 15 Hungarian and 35 German divisions, but 25 Rumanian, 25 Bulgarian had departed, some of them to fight on the other side. Now the Germans were desperately rushing new defenders, scraped up somehow, to hold at the Danube...