Word: unleash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artillery could get into position to block the Whangpoo at Woosung, Shanghai would be cut off from the major source of its food, the only source of its coal, fuel oil and raw materials for its factories. Only one question remained: Would the Reds unleash a knockout blow, or would they try to starve the city out? Shanghailanders, lying awake through the long nights, listened to the gunfire and the frenzied barking of frightened dogs in the streets, and waited wearily for the answer...
Minister of Armed Forces A.M. Vasilevsky flung the Politburo's May Day greeting into the sea of onlookers. If he had heard about an impending settlement at Berlin, he gave no indication of it. He cried: "Reactionaries are trying to unleash a new war . . . directed against the U.S.S.R...
...receivers consistently on both types of passes, and the Crimson's defense did not bode well for Saturday, should Furse and/or Jackson unleash a potent air attack...
...Council knew what that meant. During his 26-month tenure as Soviet delegate to the Security Council, Gromyko used the plain, ordinary, unadulterated veto 18 times. But only twice before did he unleash the full, blinding power of the double veto, which stops discussion before it can even get started...
...world saw in Moscow's domes of power, in her old & new shadows of violence, the capital and nerve center of an international conspiracy which prods and stabs into the world's remotest hearts. In its 800th year, Moscow the holy and the loved threatened to unleash a conflagration compared to which the city's earlier catastrophes would be like gentle tremors on a sleeping face, and which would terribly verify the ancient prophesy of a Russian churchman: "The third Rome, Moscow, stands. A fourth there will...