Word: midweek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week was Lieut. General Shiro Makino's 16th Division. But it was now obvious that Jap strength was far more than a division. Even before Makino's men were reinforced, General MacArthur had counted 12,000 Japs killed, estimated 18,000 wounded. U.S. casualties by last midweek were still low: 3,221 (including 976 killed or missing...
Minnesota's earnest young Senator Joe Ball set his own terms for supporting either Dewey or Roosevelt: the winner must convince Ball of the sincerity and strength of his internationalism. Then he sat back to listen. First he heard Tom Dewey's midweek broadcast; then he listened to Franklin Roosevelt. His decision: "I shall vote for and support Franklin Roosevelt." His reasoning...
...midweek, when Aachen had been beaten into mortar-stained destruction, the German command apparently came to its decision: the battle centered on Aachen was indeed the real thing. Now quick to act, the Germans plunged into desperate attacks to break the left arm of Hodges' army. Recklessly they expended sorely needed first-rate fighting "men in futile efforts to smash the most advanced spearheads. In two days they spent more than 60 tanks, gave up the intensive battle for the next two days to gather more strength...
Campaign by Ear. Tom Dewey was meticulously groomed, changing suits daily - brown, blue, grey pinstriped, al ways single-breasted. Always, when he alighted, the grey Homburg was in his hand. Never did he seem flustered. And in midweek the added confidence he drew from the Maine results (see Elections) showed visibly...
...Lakes. Farther north, the whole irrational Nazi line was being hammered. Smashing into the corridor between the Vistula and the Masurian Lakes was General Feodor Zakharov's Second White Russian Army. It took the Narew River fortress of Lomza in midweek, and advanced through Novgorod to within sight of the lakes, where a 30-year-old defeat could be avenged...