Word: infliction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of German-held Italy. Last week the Germans said that strong troop concentrations had moved on to the Yugoslav coast of the Adriatic. These reports had a ring of truth. On that coast, at its few practicable points of entry,, the Germans can hope to gain time and inflict heavy losses in a profitable rear-guard-stand. It is there, if anywhere, that they must hold a gate to their inner fortress-and fight to bar the British and Americans from a junction with the Russians...
...kindest epithet for the average documentary film is the word dull. The kindest thing to say about people who inflict such documentaries on cinemaudiences is that they confuse reality with fact. They think that photofact is intrinsically superior to photofiction, and indulge an even more mistaken idea that there is something undignified in entertaining the customers. But several recent British documentaries (some already released, others soon to be) prove that all it takes to make screen fact as good as the best screen fiction is the know...
British night bombers generally take their losses, inflict relatively few in return. With the more heavily armed American day bombers, the story is different. Said a U.S. communique last week, reporting a score of 37 bombers to "nearly 100" German fighters in two raids: "The primary task of heavy bombers operating in daylight against war industry is to slow enemy armament production, but attrition against enemy fighter defenses, an important secondary consideration, is mounting steadily...
Blows & Counterblows. Like three great scythes, Red Armies were trying to slash their way through and behind the German positions in south Russia last week. Said Moscow's Red Star: "By strengthening our blows we will be in a position to surround new masses and inflict new losses. The harvest will be great if we can reap it in time...
...round-the-clock raids, instead of more massive but sporadic attacks, had been best set forth by Major General Ira C. Eaker, commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Britain. His reasons: 1) to inflict maximum damage; 2) to keep enemy defenses on a 24-hour alert; 3) to force maintenance of both day & night fighters in Western Europe...