Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortening the Line. But Russian power would not be denied. By this week the Red Armies had accomplished what no Junker could have believed possible. Rokossovsky, striking swiftly, enveloped the Germans with the bear's left arm. It reached the Baltic 43 miles southwest of Königsberg, enfolded Elbing, created a pocket 85 miles deep. The Russians had done another impossible: they had broken through the "impregnable" German defenses in the Masurian Lakes area, had narrowed the pocket to an average width of 40 miles. Inside was what remained of a Wehrmacht force of some...
...Germans fought on, tried to break out in furious counterattacks. There was little future for them if they succeeded. The arm that enclosed them was an inner envelopment by this week. Rokossovsky had developed a similar encircling sweep, aimed at Danzig and the German Baltic coast...
Zhukov's field command of the First Ukrainian Army was then taken over by Marshal Ivan Konev. Now it is the left arm of the offensive, striking at Silesia. When Zhukov returned to the field, he took over from tall (6 ft. 4 in.) Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, who moved to command the Second White Russian Army, now the right arm of assault aimed at lopping off East Prussia...
Treatment of men who have lost an arm or a leg has improved enormously since World War I. Then, training and fitting were so incomplete that many casualties soon threw their artificial limbs away because they were too uncomfortable. This time the Army's brisk, blue-eyed Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk (whose book, Amputations, is a surgeon's bible) got six special amputation centers started before the heavy flow of amputation cases began. He believes that with good care, and civilian understanding, no crippled veteran need think of selling pencils on street corners. Good care includes good...
Each step requires long, patient, often exasperating practice. For a man who has lost an arm, even walking may be difficult at first, because of the change in his body balance. But the first day is made a thrilling occasion; when a man with an artificial leg is ready to walk without crutches or cane, the hospital staff and his fellow patients gather round, turn on music, applaud his first solo steps and his surprised, delighted smile...