Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have done something today." General Montgomery's offensive east of Caen, which had jumped off to such a promising start early in the week, had clanked to a grinding stop. Infantrymen, mopping up the ground taken, had es tablished a sound and useful bridgehead across the Orne River barrier, and the Allies were unquestionably in better position for the next push, but that was about...
...wind . . . strange as the horn of a unicorn," and north of Lieut. General Sir Oliver Leese's Eighth Army there was still Florence, repository of Renaissance art, which the Germans had declared an open city. When they were captured, the Arno would cease to be a barrier. General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander would be ready to regroup his forces, and the ultimate thrust would get under...
Telephone and wire services to neutral countries were cut off. Airplane flights to neutral Sweden and Switzerland were interrupted. For hours the fate of Hitler and of Germany, which was in some degree the fate of every man, woman & child in the world, was shrouded behind an invisible, hermetic barrier...
...first obstacle is called Contract Cancellation and Settlement, is similar to the one business traversed after the last war, and can therefore be quickly recognized. If the war ended tomorrow, uncompleted contracts would total $80 to $100 billion. But since the war is not quite ending tomorrow, this barrier must be gradually reduced in size whenever any part of it no longer serves a military purpose. Any prolonging of war contracts is a hindrance to speedy reconversion. At the war's end the whole obstacle must be bodily removed as quickly as possible, even though this will wrench loose...
...four-way triumph scored by Ohio State's great Jesse Owens in 1935. With the 100-and 220-yard dashes and the broad jump safely tucked away, the stubby freshman was leading by 30 feet in the 220 low hurdles when he kicked over the last barrier, lost his footing on the rain-drenched cinders, and fell flat...