Word: break-through
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...dividing the plain are knee-deep brooks. There are no forests such as help to screen Moscow. The Nazis had merely to cross the plain between two rivers. Sprawling along the Volga for 25-miles, Stalingrad's shoestring outline provides not even a compact area to defend. A break-through at any point could cut the defending forces...
...Russian counter-thrust near Moscow will have no effect unless a break-through along the Germans' Smolensk supply line can be made, he stated. Such a break-through would force the Nazis to retreat and draw troops from the South to check the Russian drive...
...dropped extensively behind the Russian lines. Planes also were dropping tanketka (baby tanks) in numbers that caused plenty of trouble unless Soviet units isolated and destroyed them. A favorite parachute tactic was to land 100 or so men near a town or rail line, attempt to hold on until break-through units arrived overland. Often they dropped into towns, trying to create panic and the belief that the town had been surrounded...
...Jones's doings at Milwaukee. Unable on his first attempt to round up the two-thirds' majority required to get the war resolution reconsidered, he and his cohorts spent two busy hours lobbying among the Assembly's 900-odd Commissioners. Their renewed offensive won a break-through just before adjournment. Then they succeeded in striking out Dr. Kerr's fiery sentence, substituting the much more restrained: "We have no alternative as a nation but to engage in this war." Nevertheless, Presbyterians are still officially committed to "pray for and work for a righteous victory." The Presbyterians...
Timoshenko's Riposte. Two could play at the game of limited venture; two could try for a decisive break-through on the only stabilized front in World...