Word: bolstered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans feared a breakthrough most in the north, but they could not bolster the north by leaving the Saar and the upper Rhine uncovered. They could not stand a rupture anywhere, because of the scarcity of reserves and the difficulty of moving them under the merciless Allied bombing...
...hangover. In Brussels, as in Paris, there was still an afterglow of liberation gaiety-but it was forced. Belgians needed food, clothing, fuel. Transport was paralyzed. This week the Allied High Command began diverting 200 tons of food daily for 20 days, to help meet Belgian needs. It would bolster, it might save Premier Hubert Pierlot's Government. But in Belgium, as in France, Communism had grown and hardened under the Nazis. Belgian Communists sternly charged Pierlot's Government with inefficiency. Said London's New Statesman and Nation: "This is the opening round in the struggle between...
Since the collapse in Normandy, and Rumania's change of sides, the enemy has recklessly drawn checks on every one of his other accounts to bolster his position in the west and south-hoping that his overdrafts would not be found out. He threw good money after...
...Since the debacle in Normandy it has been plain that Germany has committed her military capital. Since then the enemy's defense has been a series of check-kiting swindles against time. They may have begun even earlier, when he drew on the Bank of the West to bolster his account with the Bank of the East (before Warsaw and East Prussia...
Late Men. When Field Marshal Heinz Guderian took charge of the Wehrmaoht (TIME, Aug. 7), he had to draft reserves available for the west to bolster the German east front. Last week Guderian had to draft a field marshal from the east, where he had stopped the Russians before Warsaw, to try to stem the Allied tides in the west. The new oberbefehlshaber was stocky, monocled, 53-year-old Walter von Model (rhymes with yodel), popular in Germany, a Hitler-Himmler favorite as well. Model threw his energies into putting up a stiff delaying action on the Moselle River...