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Word: impending (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some accounts took these and other Churchill remarks to mean that invasion of the European continent is near. But if the Prime Minister gave any guide at all to the impending sequence of events in Europe, it was in a reference to Russia: "It is here," fre said, "that the greatest battles seem to impend." His estimate of Axis strength in Russia: 190 German, 28 satellite divisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Burden of Success | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

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