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Word: weaponeers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Fleet, steaming along under clouds, smoke screens and what seemed like a carapace of planes; but gallantry was not enough. The fact was that the Germans had won an important naval battle simply by not losing it. And they had won it by employing the great new naval weapon which the British still fight against in more ways than one, the airplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Through The Strait | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...origins of Nazism in the immediate past. But by revealing the sources of Nazi irrationality, it warns us of the Nazi lurking even in the most rational westerner. For even he is not always perfectly adjusted to society. Viereck gives us an insight that can be a potent weapon for combatting Nazism at its roots...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 2/21/1942 | See Source »

...achieve unity behind these ideas, it will not fall apart at the end of the war, and freedom of speech will not be a weapon of the forces opposing democracy. If we don't, we will be as unfit and unable to rule the world as we were after Versailles...

Author: By J. W. Ballantine, | Title: CABBAGES AND KINGS | 2/19/1942 | See Source »

With hunger the Axis has managed to accomplish what it could do with no other weapon-to break the stubborn spirit of the Greek people. Hate no longer snaps from the eyes of famished Greeks; there is no room for hate in lives that are one long, hopeless search for food. The Greek Government has begged for food from the Turks. Said a Greek official: "We are not asking for food that Turks would eat, but for food they refuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Hungriest Country | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...Sophomores were demonstrating the lethal weapon to a couple of girls in their room when one of them lifted the plunger, and released the lachrymose vapor. Amid great wailing and gnashing of teeth, and many tears, the victims groped for windows and means of egress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tear Gas Backfires As Sophs Try Skill on Girls | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

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