Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three general aims of a direct attack on the islands: 1) disorganization of industrial Britain, 2) disorganization of Government 3) a stroke at national morale by land operations on London's outskirts. Most British were so confident of Britain's naval strength that they disallowed a seaborne blow at Eire, and thought that if there was to be attack on Ireland, it would be a violent airborne diversion. Similar diversions were to be expected at the Orkneys and on the Scottish coasts...
...prestige had suffered such a blow that Churchill urged the Italians to drive...
...anti-tank guns, the 68th moved into line, went past The Old Man at 20 m.p.h. Sergeant Pullen drove like a virtuoso, keeping his tank dressed with the four others on his left, watching the field for holes or stumps which would give him and his men a bashing blow against the steel walls...
...last month they had covered thousands of miles, so silently that no word of their activities leaked out until last week. Then, with the Italian Libyan Armies no longer in condition to strike a flanking blow at Egypt, Cairo uncovered the story of their campaign, added new details to the Free French raid on Murzuch (TIME...
...result of games played last week, the league race is now wide open. Cornell has tarnished Dartmouth's unbeaten record, while the Ithacans themselves received a severe blow to their aspirations from Captain Franny Simpson...