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...Samples: "clobber"-to destroy an enemy plane; "beaver"-to shoot holes in an enemy plane; "wetfeet"-to fly over the Channel; "happy valley"-where flak is heavy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Back in Stride | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...everyone hold before him a single thought-to destroy the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Fate of the World | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...Rundstedt had still more hidden reserves to commit to battle, he might possibly try to cut in behind the First and destroy the bulk of it, roll up the three other Allied armies to the north, recapture Antwerp and even wheel back into France. These were high stakes indeed, and the Germans' chances seemed correspondingly small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WESTERN FRONT: For What Stakes? | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Opportunity. The Luftwaffe's show of strength early in the offensive had not been great enough to help Rundstedt fully achieve the first object of any decisive breakthrough: to fan out behind an enemy's lines, to destroy or seize his supplies, to keep him from moving his reserves into defensive battle, to send him into confused retreat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Body Blow | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Judge Pailhé read on: "The Jewish gang behind the White House. . . . The English, who, Bible in hand, seek to destroy Europe. . . . Allied airmen who are nothing but flying assassins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Case of Paul Chack | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

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