Word: faster
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Hopeful Britons conjectured that the pace was beginning to tell, that the supplies of lubricating oil, explosives and metal might be thinning faster than the Germans wished (no one thought they were running out, however). But the main reason was another of the periodic changes in German tactics...
...over the countries they could hear the music of war getting louder, the giant Axis metronome ticking a little faster. Herr Hitler's tour and Signor Mussolini's attack to the East brought Europe one step closer to the solid bloc which would constitute the New Order-a pan-Europe which the Axis hopes can defy Britain's blockade and turn it against the blockaders* The alignment of France and Spain, the former in supine collaboration, the latter with willing spirit but feeble body, would make possible an all-out attack soon on the Western Mediterranean. This...
...Burma Road. Reports differed as to how steadily the shipments would flow. The Japanese claimed hits on a vital bridge over the Mekong River; the Chinese said that no hits had registered and that new, giant ten-wheel trailer trucks were carrying the stuff of war into China faster than ever. But whatever the rate of future shipments, last week's token arrivals were worth their weight in dead Japanese...
...destroyer with a shot through the hull. As the crippled destroyer lost way, another slipped her a towline, started spewing out a smoke screen. By now the Ajax (which the Italians claimed to have sunk) had begun calling up support. But before the heavy cruiser York could arrive, the faster Italians vanished over the swells...
Pressing him hard is John Koslowski, a Governor Dummer graduate. Only recently recovered from a head injury he received last year, he is faster and heavier than Norton and may possibly be a better quarterback. The team has not been run too smartly so far. Walth Anderson is the third string replacement...