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"text": "Following the success of this raid, [Orde] Wingate realised that transport aircraft in radio contact with troops on the ground had revolutionised jungle warfare. He advocated a total restructuring of the Allied offensive so that instead of an overland advance, it would seize airheads and leapfrog forward by air to Hanoi, in Indochina.",
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"ref": "2007, Patrick Watson, “The Month of February”, in Watson’s Really Big WWII Almanac, volume I (January to June), [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 225:",
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dúročka",
"sense": "foolish, silly, or unintelligent person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ду́рочка"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "pustája bašká",
"sense": "foolish, silly, or unintelligent person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пуста́я башка́"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "foolish, silly, or unintelligent person",
"word": "тупаџија"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "foolish, silly, or unintelligent person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "тупоглавац"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "foolish, silly, or unintelligent person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "burro"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "foolish, silly, or unintelligent person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cabeza de chorlito"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "foolish, silly, or unintelligent person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cabeza hueca"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "foolish, silly, or unintelligent person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "chorlito"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "foolish, silly, or unintelligent person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "estúpido"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "foolish, silly, or unintelligent person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "tontón"
}
],
"word": "airhead"
}
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