Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian flood had leaped one barrier after another, leaped them so fast that before any compartment had been fully flooded, the next had already been breached. How different this was from successful retreat was shown by the results...
...Barrier Breaching. In Bessarabia last week the air was thick with the aroma of apple blossoms and Marshal Ivan Konev was there to enjoy it. Even more he could enjoy the knowledge that his was the major credit for breaking through one compartment after another of the Ger man defenses...
Japan's lush and formidable South Seas base was suddenly fixed in hundreds of U.S. airmen's bombsights. Carrier planes -Avengers and Dauntless dive-bombers -hurtled across the green islands which lie within Truk's barrier coral reef, screamed down onto the shipping moored inside the 40-mile-wide lagoon. Snub-nosed Hellcats swirled into fights with Jap defenders, shot them from the air, caught plenty more ignominiously on the ground. After the first few hours there was no longer any doubt: the enemy had been caught napping...
...Next Blow. Where the next big blow will fall is the Jap's as well as the U.S.'s problem. But the Jap must think hardest, for he is on the defensive, and he is facing overwhelming forces. Only the barrier of distance is decisively on his side...
...Fine Points. Few of the U.S. citizens, except established residents in Mexico, understand the fine points of the spectacle. In the first scene the peones (matador's helpers) drag their capes before the newly entered bull and flee behind the barrier as he charges. Having studied the bull's style of charging, the matador plays him with a cape, with slow, graceful passes, finally "fixes" the bull -brings him up short with an abrupt pass which ends the scene...