Word: bend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...follow the armor you sail along easily for several miles. Then suddenly you come to debris of war again: a bend in the road where the fleeing Germans turned for a delaying action. You see the tracks where the tanks hurriedly tore into the fields to hit the Germans from several sides at once. Then you pass the bend where the smashed trucks, guns and equipment are scattered over the fields...
Meanwhile, the general public, unabashed, continues to read Alice by the millions. Distinguished mathematicians revel in the "logic" of its nonsense; psychologists acclaim it as a brilliant Freudian freak; politicians, editors and divines habitually use it to score points against their opponents; earnest translators bend to the task of rendering it into foreign nonsense...
...mistaken U.S. bombing of a Swiss town, the Swiss signed a new trade agreement with a U.S.-British mission headed by Washington's wispy Lauchlin Currie and London's Dingle Foot. The Swiss, who three years ago were squeezed by the top-dog Nazis, now had to bend their neutrality to a squeeze from the opposite side: they agreed 1) to cut off all except token shipments of important civilian goods between Germany and northern Italy; 2) to switch all the electric current they export from Germany to France; 3) to impound all German-owned bank balances...
...Russian Army guns. They were trained, as Berlin knew, on the ancient fortress of Küstrin and five-times-stormed Frankfurt, the last two strongholds on the direct road to Berlin. Red Army soldiers, locked in a mighty tank and infantry battle in the "Oder quadrilateral" (the big bend in the river near Frankfurt), could see the pall of smoke that hung over Berlin...
...raced ahead on the last twelve miles into Wanting. As we rounded a bend we saw what seemed to be the Chinese Army. They were dressed in ragged uniforms, patchworks of grey and faded blue. Their guns were old and worn and they were hauling their artillery up the inclines by ropes...