Word: begin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sevastopol having fallen, the Allies begin their successful push north near Cassino...
June 23, as the Russians smash the last Finnish front along the Svir River, they begin their drive directly westward, from Vitebsk toward Warsaw...
...Paris is about to fall, the Russians plunge into Rumania (here the breaks begin to come the Allies' way: Rumania changes sides and most of the German forces in the Balkans are lost by a political stroke...
...West Wall. The German nightmare-Einkreisung, encirclement-was coming true at last. And behind the frightened Germans stood a vast potential fifth column. Scattered throughout the Reich were some eight million foreign workers. To them last week went two calls from General Eisenhower's headquarters: ''Begin now to leave the factories . . . [but] do not be provoked by the Gestapo into unorganized action." In Eisenach and Dessau, French, Belgian and Dutch slave labor gangs barricaded themselves in their barracks, sang their national anthems. The SS apparently lacked the men to stop them. Elsewhere foreign workers were stepping...
...soon as WPB gives the word, the airlines will begin to get the planes. Douglas is making a military version of the DC-4, will build the DC-6 for the Army...