Word: barriere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kiev took the lands along the Bug and the San from the Poles in 981. Boleslas the Brave, second king of Poland, stormed Kiev in 1018. These were but the first recorded instances in a long line of futile attempts to nail down a firm frontier where no natural barrier exists...
...with 200 wives, Lobengula was the last of the Zulu chieftains to make a stand for black independence. He vanished 50 years ago after a disastrous clash between his fierce native warriors and the colonists of Cecil Rhodes. The battle secured Rhodesia for the white men, blasted the last barrier to their march across Africa. In after years, white men heard that Lobengula had killed himself, that he had died of smallpox, that his grave was a cache of buried treasure. But the Matabele kept silence: the king's body and grave were never found until a rain-goddess...
...nine bloody weeks the Allies have inched slowly up Italy's shank, their progress slowed by mined roads, shattered bridges, fiercely resisting Germans in mountain emplacements. Last week the U.S. and British forces stepped up their attack, broke through the Germans' strongest barrier below Rome...
...That barrier consisted of a series of transverse ranges, stretching north eastward from Mount Massico on the Tyrrhenian coast, through Venafro and Isernia to Vasto on the Adriatic. No single engagement cracked this German line. The job was done in coordinated thrusts-the first by Lieut. General Mark Clark's Fifth Army at Mount Massico, then one by General Sir Bernard Montgomery's Eighth Army at Isernia, and another by General Clark's men at Venafro. These break-throughs were followed by two smashes at the flanks. Vasto fell to the Eighth; the Fifth probed into...
...importance of the actions. He knows that Bougainville is the last barrier to the southeast of Rabaul; and Rabaul is the main bulwark to the south of Japan's Pearl Harbor, the naval base of Truk...