Word: bend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More C-47s, the largest force of all, went farther eastward. Soon below them lay the great bend of the Rhine, where it turns west to the sea. There, near the Dutch town of Nijnegen, and only fourteen miles from the German city of Cleve, where the Siegfried Line ends, brown and white and yellow and blue parachutes soon filled the fields on both sides of the wide Rhine...
...South Bend, the well-organized luck of the Irish still held. Notre Dame was up with a new 200-lb., 6-ft. 3 sparkplug, 17-year-old Joe Gasparella, touted to be as good a passer as Angelo Bertelli...
March 4, as the Russians finish mopping up 15 Nazi divisions in the Dnieper Bend, they start their drive across the Ukraine...
...turned a bend," Beeton said later, "and there, coming down the road, was what looked like an entire company of well-armed krauts. I stopped the jeep and trained the Tommy gun on them...
...throughout its length. But at many points he had not been pushed beyond the river -an important distinction. Eighth Army positions were open to harassing mortar and artillery fire from isolated German pockets on the south bank and from the high ground of the Prato Magno in the great bend of the Arno, southeast of Florence. If the situation was bad for Kesselring, it was also uncomfortable for General Sir Harold Alexander...