Word: breach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outer walls of Germany's Fortress Europe shuddered and cracked under heavy Allied pressure. Three widening breaches had been torn in the East Wall, a fourth was opening and Russians were pouring in. The Atlantic Wall was cracked in Normandy; the fissure opened by that wedge seemed to point straight to Paris. In northern Italy there was a bad breach that might spread to the weakened Balkan wing of the fort. Smaller cracks were opening within the fortress itself-the result of serious underground strains in France, in Yugoslavia, in Denmark...
...Negroes here." He sued. Last fortnight the hotelkeeper told a British court that his house was full of Americans when Constantine arrived, argued that color prejudice among his U.S. guests justified his action. Last week the court awarded Constantine five guineas ($21), the maximum permitted under British law for breach of contract.' But the money was immaterial to Leary Constantine. He was satisfied with the ruling that Britons should not bow to U.S. prejudices...
...Moscow, bursting rockets told of the reopening of the Russian Front. Over the radio the familiar voice of Announcer Yuri Levitan read Stalin's order on the breach of Finland's Mannerheim Line. The day was D plus five of the invasion of western Europe...
...second nightfall, the breach was 25 miles wide and 15 to 25 miles deep. The gulf fortress of Viipuri now lay only 40 miles away...
Then the Pope stepped down from the dais and mingled with the newsmen. His watered-silk sash brushed against the uniforms of battle-soiled pressmen. His white-silk skullcap shone among battered steel helmets. Benignly he overlooked the breach of Vatican neutrality implicit in the side arms carried by a few army men. He smiled when he saw U.P.'s hefty Eleanor ("Pee Bee") Packard bulging in army slacks. "I haven't anything else to wear," said Correspondent Packard...