Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, though striking hard, had yet to launch his hardest blows. South of Berlin, Marshal Ivan S. Konev's forces smashed from Oder bases toward the Czechoslovakian border. North of Berlin, Zhukov drove for the old Baltic port of Stettin, tried to tear loose this anchor of the Oder River line...
...Pride. The British Second is now the most fully rested of Eisenhower's seasoned armies. Direct offspring of Britain's famed Eighth (which Monty rolled from El Alamein to Tunis, and which is now bogged down in Italy), the Second had the hard job of holding the anchor at Caen, in Normandy, while Bradley's men made their spectacular breakout. The Second now carries the main burden of British hope and British pride in western Europe. It has had no full-scale action since it pushed the Germans behind the Maas River last autumn...
...field will tap the New York area's 30,000 to 40,000 postwar private planes, may become the north anchor of a bustling Westchester-to-New York City shuttle line...
Over Again. Zhukov had linked his power in the north with that of Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky's Second White Russian Army. Russian spearheads passed the Reich's borders, cut the main Berlin-Danzig railroad, surrounded Schneidemühl, an anchor point on the prewar defense wall Germany had built facing Poland. The main objective: Stettin...
...Yenbo bay the royal Egyptian yacht Mahroussa lay elegantly at anchor. From her graceful cutaway stern the royal Egyptian standard flapped idly in a Red Sea breeze. The rocky hills echoed with right royal salvos fired in salutation between ship and shore. Smart young King Farouk of Egypt had come to call on wise old King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia...